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

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

@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

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.

One would think a nurse would research something before they just blurt something out like that.

My better half doesn’t mind it and eventually tried some SG-Kendal brown and enjoyed it…

One would think a nurse would research something before they just blurt something out like that.

Sometimes medical personnel make comments about that which they know nothing. In instances regarding snuff, they are little more than “educated assholes”. IMHO

She doesn’t take a pinch, because it causes headache, she says.

Sounds like she sniffed it too far back and it made that nerve behind the left eye twang - get her to try it again and get it lodged in the soft part of the nose, she might be converted. That said, Mrs Pufnsnuff doesn’t like it, but that’s because the few pinches she had made her feel dizzy (and they weren’t particularly high nic snuff). She hates feeling dizzy - a few years ago we were walking in the country and I found a field with a lovely, gentle slope, and suggested we re-live the days of doing ‘roly poly down the hill’. “Ooh - yes”, she said, “I used to love that when I was little”, and then, as I rolled down laughing, had to listen to her going “Oh - oh no - I feel all dizzy - aaaaagh!” :))

Mrs. SandwichIsles absolutely abhors my snuff. However she still smokes, which is insanely expensive in hawaii (not to mention health things) so she doesn’t have much ground to complain from. She’s also a nurse and an obsessive researcher so I’m sure I would have heard it if she had found some ammunition. As It stands, it’s a cold war with occasional flare ups. As a formwr submariner I’m quite capable of living with it.

I’ll sometimes go a month between pinches. I do ramp up usage in the Spring. Snuff helps with rhinitis due to allergies. The trick is to build up a layer of nose cake. My wife thinks the hankerchiefs are disgusting. I wash my own.

Wow… I’m a pretty lucky guy. My wife has never used tobacco a day in her life and never gives me grief about smoking or snuff… she doesn’t like it if I chew or dip so I usually just do those things at work so she doesn’t have to deal with it. I smoke in the garage but I have a 4 car garage and half of it is finished like a house with heat and AC so it’s just an extra big den as far as I’m concerned. I smoke out there because of the little ones. But I snuff in the house all the time.

Oh, for a heated garage…

I consumed or consume almost all forms of tobacco. She used to criticize me for cigarettes (mainly because of the smell), but I smoke them rarely these days. Loose snus between teeth is also perfectly okay it seems. Snuff ? She doesn’t cares at all. Now, when she goes downtown she actually asks me if I don’t need something from the tobacco shop. It wasn’t always like that, but I was persistent at my tobacco usage across the years and she realized that it’s not possible to change this. So, i win!

once my girlfriends parents found a box of gletscher-prise she borrowed and poured it away. pissed me off royally that did. not because of the value, but because of the principle and the close-mindedness. obviously said girlfriend doesnt mind my use, but she doesnt like the mess of snuff. sometimes she will get me a cuban and herself a smaller flavoured cigar, or a box of black russian cigs, though ill probably only have one of the cigs and regret it. she doesnt use any form of tobacco regularly, and doesnt mind my regular snus use unless im using los or dip, apart from my whining and irritability when im run/running out and have to wait weeks for a delivery to arrive.

@Firestarter0 she sounds like a keeper .You should cohabitate.

Everytime my girlfriend is trying to make fun of me for having some snuff on the nose, I tell her that having snuff in the face is a sign of great prosperity where I come from. It’s also there on purpose, to demonstrate disrespect to snuff-haters. I’m not sure if she believes it or not though.

My wife just doesn’t like hanging out under drippy brown nose caverns, so, generally I don’t snuff when I’m spending quality time with her or if I’m wanting to get some action. I think the nose gook is the thing that puts most people off about snuff, and protects our hobby from going mainstream, and thus, off the anti radar.

My fiancé lets me sniff it off her body. It sure is hard to get people to understand the difference between snuff and dip. Like trying to get someone to change thier religion.

My fiancé lets me sniff it off her body. It sure is hard to get people to understand the difference between snuff and dip. Like trying to get someone to change thier religion.

you, my friend, have hit the jackpot.

Try that in the shower, I’m sure she will like it even better!

Try that in the shower, I’m sure she will like it even better!

I’m not convinced snuff and running water mix very well…

I made it clear to my boyfriend when we began dating that I had no intention of quitting smoking. He never once complained about my vice, though he has never used tobacco of any kind. When I did quit smoking cigarettes, he wholeheartedly supported my switch to vaping, even going so far as to buy me a lovely Skeleton Key mod for Christmas. When I told him my decision to partake of snus and snuff, he didn’t bat an eye. I explained the health concerns (or lack thereof, in relation to smoking) and he simply remarked—yet again—that he only wishes for my happiness. And he has remarked that I seem very happy lately. ;

Try that in the shower, I’m sure she will like it even better!

I’m not convinced snuff and running water mix very well…

Keep you head above the water and the scent will intensify.

I really feel for you guys, I would hate it if Lord Snuff had not joined me in this highly enjoyable activity. I cannot understand though smokers who disagree with snuffing? I can’t get my head round that one. I agree though, that by hiding or doing it in secret makes it looks like it is illicit or one is ashamed. Hopefully these ladies will come round, I am sure there is a snuff out there for everyone, there are so, so many different varieties…

Good to hear from you @LadySnuff… it has been a long time. Glad you are still about.

I have been taking snuff on and off for a few months now. I was afraid my fiancée would be upset if she knew. Although she enjoys my pipe smoking, she hates cigars and cigar smoking with a passion (she pictures all cigar smokers as greasy unwashed bums in wifebeaters (strap tshirts) for some bizarre reason), and doesn’t like being around me when smoke them. So I was afraid snuff would cause a similar reaction. But one day this past week while she was using the nasal spray her doctor prescribed for her allergies, I said “nasal spray is fine, but I like my method better”. Her curiosity piqued, she inquired what my method was. I pulled out my Red Bull tap box. “This is nasal snuff, you know, like in the move ‘Amadeus’ when the aristocrats pull out the little silver box, take a pinch, sniff it, then sneeze into their handkerchiefs?” “Powdered tobacco and essential oils basically, mine’s mentholated, clears out the sinuses every time!” She just said “sounds amazing, better than this nasal spray!” I tried to get her to try, but no luck yet.

I don’t think I have ever seen anyone smoke a cigar in a wifebeater. I have done it before but, I would have to take a mirror outside too see it. I’m also a special case. I was wearing a kilt with the wifebeater on.

one day this past week while she was using the nasal spray her doctor prescribed for her allergies, I said “nasal spray is fine, but I like my method better”.

Tell her from me that it works, too. Even as a child I had trouble breathing through my nose. As I got older it just got worse, and the occasional hayfever I had troubled me more and more frequently, 'til I found it all but impossible to breathe through my nose in the summer without using Otrivine nasal spray on a regular basis. Since I started snuffing my breathing has cleared up completely, using most types of snuff (unless I decide to have a bash at the Hedges or similar strong menthol, which is instant block-up time again for me). The best nose-opener is, of course, the wonderful Kailash, which, apart from the beneficial effect on the schnoz and sinuses, I would imagine she’d like due to the beautiful scent. Then there’s the money factor. Expensive things, nasal sprays…

I’ve seen the cigar + wifebeater tee shirt a lot , most notably in Ybor City, Tampa FL…