Got Busted For Taking Snuff

Well, I left one of my Poschl Tap boxes in a pair of shorts that got washed. My Fiancee found and said, I didn’t even know you were doing snuff! I had to explain its not the cowboy snuff and that it was safer than pipe smoking… it seems most people think of snuff as moist.

I snuffed for a while without telling the wife, but owned up to it one day just because I felt bad about it. It went over well; she’s relatively understanding (doesn’t like it, but doesn’t try and stop me from doing it). At least it’s out in the open now!

Depends on which side of the pond you’re on. In the UK, snuff generally means nasal tobacco. In the US, snuff generally means oral tobacco. I think the confusion arose because people started to use nasal snuff orally. Eventually, snuff intended to be used orally was manufactured and nasal snuff faded away. The name stuck, despite not really making sense.

She’s signed the packages from Toque and Mr. Snuff. She has no problems with my pipe smoking, didn’t think she’d mind. Well, yeah it’s in the open now. Maybe I can get her to try some of the flower scented snuffs :slight_smile:

Hiding your hobby from your spouse ,made you look ashamed. Be open with your healthy choice to consume snuff. Even chew isn’t the boogieman they claim it to be. http://www.smokersonly.org/product\_facts/antioxidant.html And according to the surgeon general report pipe smokers live 3 -5 years longer than non smokers.

My wife just shakes her head anymore…

Yeah my better half despairs at how I “shoving that stuff up my nose” but lives with it as it helps reduce the ciggies. She’s got more of a problem with the e-cigs as it looks too much like smoking in the house.

my wife enjoys the occasional pinch of snuff :smiley:

@Mouse I wish I could say the same. She can, however tell anytime a tin is open. The woman can smell tobacco like no one else I know. The good side to that is that if she don’t say anything then no one can smell it in the house. Also anytime a tin is less then air tight she will let me know.

My wife won’t kiss me if I just pinched due to the smell of most of them. While she is reluctant to try them, she has gotten some of the tin notes and finds some of them simply charming. She really enjoyed the tin note of McChrystal’s Violet. I think she’s a keeper just for that.

Anytime you seem to be keeping a “habit” secret, it gives the appearance you are doing something “wrong”. This is just my $0.02 & IMHO. Not a criticism.

My gf hates every scent I put into my nose. Somewhat weird. I try everything to please her nose, but no can do. Only one or two exceptions: Bernard Weichnactprise and snuff with heavy vanilla scent. Althought good, not my favourite range of aromas. However, as I quit smoking with snuff, she approves. She is still a smoker herself, so what could she say. She doesn’t take a pinch, because it causes headache, she says.

My wife very, VERY strongly dislikes tobacco in all forms. That said, as long as I smoke the pipes in the basement (I have a nice little setup down there), smoke the cigars outdoors (which I’d do anyway), and don’t expect her to wash my snuff hankies, she doesn’t really give me any grief about it. As long as I don’t decide to pick up a cigarette habit (I want nothing to do with 'em), she’s pretty much taken the “live and live” approach.

My wife left me 15 years ago, the upside is I get to do whatever I want. The down side ,What down side?

Wow I’m surprised some people are against it…I understand they might think it’s disgusting or weird but against it… Make them try some Abraxas Cafe11…every coffee lover should love it :wink:

It’s probably the least offensive tobacco vice there is. If it didn’t remind people of sniffing coke, there wouldn’t be a single issue,

I have said this in just about every thread but, Just about everyone I meet is disgusted by it. A large portion are against it. I just state the facts and, do some more. My bar tender asked if I was okay when I was enjoying some. He didn’t really make any other comment about it. I must have been making the bad snuff face.

My girlfriend had been disgusted with snuff… until she tried it herself.

My wife mentioned once that she didn’t care for the scent of a particular snuff once, since then she has said nothing negative. She knows I take a pinch or two as soon as I get up in the morning. Heck, I was on a corner in new Orleans and she handed me a hankie after I took a pinch so I take that and her occasional comment that I have 'schmutz" on my nose as tacit approval or at-least acceptance. Others however are often dare I say revolted when I explain what snuff is- to which I often hear a comment along the lines of ‘you snort tobacco up your nose’- to which I smile and say no- I sniff it.

Yeah well we had the talk yesterday about it. I told her it’s safer than my pipes… and she of course told me about nose cancer… this happens when you date err well are engaged to a nurse.