Get a couple good bullets (I recommend the Posh ones) and use them. No mess and with practice you can conceal them in your hand and enjoy pretty much whenever you wish. If you need even more discretion, a portion of snus can suffice (though IMHO not as good as snuff).
@mecompco I have a Posh bullet, but it doesn’t work very well and I think bullets would be even worse to use in public, since they are associated with cocaine usage, and you can’t even see what’s coming out of them. At least with the snuff tin I was able to easily open it up and show them it is brown tobacco and not some illicit white powder.
So you get into bother for snuffing publicly in a bar & you get into bother for snuffing secrectly whilst on the Cludgie. To get into bother once is unfortunate, to do it twice sounds like carelessness.
@lunecat In the bathroom I usually take a quick pinch over the toilet so any excess snuff falls right in and I can flush it or wipe the seat easily. I don’t know what kind of sleuthing this social worker has been engaging in inspecting the bathroom every time I’ve used it for signs of brown powder. She says it’s been going on for almost 2 years, yet if she thought it was heroin why did she wait until now to confront me about an alleged drug problem? I have a rather bad rapport with this woman to begin with. She is a social worker who is the head of mental health counseling at this center. I had ran into her outside the center a week or two earlier and was talking to her about some serious things, including serious family troubles, financial problems, an alcoholic aunt who needs counseling, when she said she wanted to meet with me I thought she would meet to talk to me about the problems I spoke to her about. But I should have known better. When I was telling her about all these serious issues she was fixated on why my tissue was brown, and she never once brought up any of the things I tried to talk to her about during this inquisition of accusing me of heroin use. (This “mental health coordinator” has snubbed me in the past when I came to her for help about crises in my life, and she once casually accused me of rape in the middle of a group meeting she used to hold, a false and absurd charge which stung me, I stopped going to that group after that, so this social worker is not someone I particularly respect.)
I hide it. And I have had no problems and I don’t have to take the time to explain anything to anybody. I have no inclination to bow to an unwritten rule that says I should put my snuff use on display. If some want to do that, I wish them the best. If some want to hide it, I wish them the best as well. We all know that snuff is perfectly legal but I do other perfectly legal things that I do not make known as well. For example, I like to meditate. But I don’t do that in public either. One person’s cause for discretion is another person’s cause for exhibitionism.
I am completely open about snuffing, except for one set of circumstances; I wouldn’t snuff in front of a cop. The reason for this is that I am not yet a US citizen (I’m a permanent resident). When filling out the forms, you have to state whether you have ever been arrested. Not convicted, arrested. I have never been arrested, but the immigration process is already long, arduous and costly. I imagine that the extra forms and background checks to explain away an arrest for snorting a brown powder would make the process even more difficult. I usually feel quite strongly about matters of principal such as this, but I’m not going to shoot myself in the foot either.
@doctorbeat The irony is that, after I got kicked out of the bar the first time, I was hanging out with these two cops by the barricade, I showed the snuff tin that had caused all the ruckus, I explained that it was tobacco, and I snuffed in front of the cops. They said yeah, they have no problem with it, I didn’t do anything wrong, I just can’t go near the bar because the owner doesn’t want me there. So I can snuff publicly in front of cops, just not in front of asshole bar owners.
Pissing off idiots is one of the few hobbies I can still afford.
One of my favorite pass-times. I make no effort to hide my snuff use, nor do I make a show of using it. I just do it. A couple years ago I was getting my drink on in a posh hotel in Washington D.C. Can’t smoke, but snus and snuff aren’t smoking. The more I drank the more snuff I used. Never heard a word about it. Later I heard from my friends that the manager of the bar asked them what I was doing…they explained and showed off my snuff tin ( I was to far gone to remember that) after explanation, she had no issues. Well, she did laugh when I missed my nose with a boxcar and smeared a huge pile on my face…
Well, we all have our own way of dealing with how and when we snuff, there’s not any unwritten rule as far as I know, it’s just that most here seem to prefer to be open about it. When I snuff in the canteen at work or a cafe I go to sometimes in my break I put the tin on the table afterward so anyone can see what it is, if they wish. I think the lesson in these two instances is, sometimes you just can’t win!
Man you must just have bad luck. I use snuff pretty openly, I remember one time a security guard at work accused me of doing cocaine at my desk but it was easy enough to prove it was no street drug. Or maybe people are just more accepting of smokeless tobacco in the southern U.S. Maybe there’s still a vague cultural memory of nasal snuff use here in the south, to borrow a phrase from a british member here.
I do feel your pain. I used to weigh 130 pounds until I was in my mid 20’s and even though I ate more then I could stomach now. I was really fucking skinny and people would assume I was a junkie just based on my skinniness. The best was the doctor that was an asshole when I was getting antibiotics. At one point I asked him the hell otherwise then antibiotics I could want at this point.
I can’t see this kind of thing happening much in the UK apart from perhaps at a few city centre bars, you know the type, places with security guards outside and frequented by (until recently) children. The kind of place that no sane person would want to go anyway. I don’t make an exhibition of taking snuff, neither do I hide it. In fact I have recently been given a rather nice small wooden snuff box with a sliding top and as soon as it comes out of my pocket someone will always say something like ‘oooh what’s that?’ and I say 'it’s my snuffbox, nice isn’t it? and then I offer them a pinch. Job’s a goodun.
When I take a snuff in public I am cognizant of what people may assume I am doing, and if such occurs I am ready to explain. Perhaps being in Japan where staring is taboo and folks tend to go about their day has spoiled me but I enjoy the fact that I have yet to be questioned.
In my experience, using a snuff bullet is for sure a red flag for those who think snuff is a drug. I don’t if you’all are too young to remember, but the bullets originally were for cocaine. I remember them coming out in the early 1980’s, and even met a few people who used them for that. I never tried them, nor do I use them now. I either picn, backhand, or use a tiny silver spoon. I would never take snuff in a public place because I know people are going to wonder what I’m doing, and I don’t want to explain it or justify it to anybody. The only people I talk about snuff with are my girlfriend( who hates it), and you guys here on SH.
You know I’ve been more and more brazen about sniffing at work over the past few years (I used to be more subtle). Late last week I got asked by someone for the very first time what I was sniffing. I said “it’s snuff” and that was that! Maybe it is slightly age/circumstance dependant. I really believe the more ‘shady’ you are about snuff taking, the more open it is to being misconstrued as being something illicit - being open and honest about your eccentricities is the best policy in my book
@lunecat - I love your backbone and the backbone of people like you. As I’m sure you are, I’m also considerate and smart about where and when I do it, but I couldn’t care less if people see me taking snuff and I do it however I damn well feel like doing it. Its high time we move past wondering how it might appear to people. Screw 'em. I set my tin openly on the table or on the bar and I take it when I want and I offer to share when I’m asked about it. Snuffing tobacco is perfectly OK, it hurts nobody and if someone is ignorant enough to think otherwise or suspect that I’m up to something shady, then their ignorance is their problem. As it should be. This includes (ignorant) cops, crusaders and enlightened liberals and they can go fly a kite. Its time for people to learn that snuff is not cocaine, its not heroine, its not cigarettes and us taking snuff is not their concern because it simply doesn’t affect them. Its up to us to maintain the great old tradition, to take our snuff openly, respectfully and responsibly and keep our snuff-taking ancestors proud.
Taking your pinches in secret only strengthens people’s misconception that you are doing something wrong or illegal. I always snuff openly and offer a pinch to the curious. You know what they say… THERE AIN’T NO CURE FOR STUPID! On the other hand, IGNORANCE is easily remedied.
