@Gilliat I agree with your “ultimately pure luck” statement. I have over a dozen bail top jars which hold about 1 litre, roughly 60 smaller glass jars which hold between 70ml and 110ml, about 40 sealed tins, and at least 30 open tins in varying degrees of consumption (this is all off the top of my head, so I might be a bit wayward on some of the numbers). Even if half my stuff ultimately spoiled, I would still have enough snuff to last me many years. The 30 open tins alone will last me well into 2018. Many of these snuffs have now been lost from production lines, and I hope they retain enough of their original character to keep me enjoying those snuffs over the years ahead. If some “mature” in a good way, that’s all well and good, but I hope many stay just the way I like them, with no mellowing or loss of the magic they were tinned with. I may treat myself to the odd fresh tin every now and again, but I certainly have no need to be placing regular (and often rather excessive) orders like I used to.
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With my scotches I just dump them in an old, leaky, antique snuff box I keep on my desk. Never noticed any difference really whether it was from a fresh tin or one that had been opened months prior. Scotches in general seem to not go bad.