I’m new and excited to have found a forum dedicated to snuff. I’m new to snuff, but have smoked a pipe for years. I’m looking forward to learning from everyone and thanks for allowing me to join you. Jim
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Hi Jim, Welcome! Though I’ll add that we have a dedicated thread for this kind of thing. No harm done, but there’s much info here already posted, and sometimes the lessons you don’t know you need are the most important to be learned. It took me a long time to learn that bigger pinches are easier to take, even with the finest of snuffs. Take your time, and read a-plenty! I’m also a brother of the briar, though snuff is by far my primary. I only take a pipe a few times a week. Good luck on your new journey. PS. Snuff, once you’ve become acclimated, is even better than a good pipe. And a good pipe is good. 
Welcome and you will find great help here…
Welcome! I’m finding I like snuff as much, perhaps more, than smoking my pipes.
It will be hard for me to like something more than smoking my pipes, but anything is possible. I imagine after I learn more about snuff and experiment enough to find what I like, I could grow to like it as much as smoking a pipe. I smoke straight Virginias, Vapers, and English tobacco blends. I really like Capstan Flake Blue, FVF, SG Balkan, Escudo, St. James Flake, and Ol’ Limey Bastard. Do you have any suggestions as to how some of my pipe tobacco interests could transition to snuff preferences. Does a persons favorite tobacco blends translate into snuffs? Or are they not related? Thanks.
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Hello Jim, welcome ! Lot’s of knowledgeable snuffers here to help if you need advice.
I’d say try some toasts - F&T High Dry Toast is canonical - and some rappees like Sam Gawith Kendal Brown. Edit: now I think of it try one of each style, if you don’t like one toast you probably won’t like any ('til your nose adjusts anyway), same for rappees.
I’ve never smoked a pipe and I sort of am thankfull because I could probably imagine that I could have become hooked. Worked with a guy who basically chewed his pipe constantly and when I caught a lung full from standing beside him it was pretty hard hitting. I guess I gave him some agro about it as I vaped and snuffed alongside and he would say that his pipe would give him up rather than he it and carry on regardless as I suppose he could not see any alternative? I gave him a snuff starter kit of some menthol and some SP which he liked a lot straight off but I haven’t seem him for over half a year now. I bet he’s still a piper though. Welcome to the jungle.
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Thanks mjohns.
Hello Jim, welcome ! Lot’s of knowledgeable snuffers here to help if you need advice.
Thanks perique. I’ve got a lot to learn.
I’d say try some toasts - F&T High Dry Toast is canonical - and some rappees like Sam Gawith Kendal Brown. Edit: now I think of it try one of each style, if you don’t like one toast you probably won’t like any ('til your nose adjusts anyway), same for rappees.
Good deal. I put an order in for the F&T and SG blends you mentioned. Is snuff referred to as blends, mixtures, …? Thanks.
I think most people just call 'em snuffs around here but there are no rules. Enjoy! And if you don’t like the toasts (some people find them very difficult to take at first though by no means everyone) save them for the future; if there’s one snuff I can near guarantee you will like eventually, if not immediately, it’s Fribourg & Treyer’s High Dry Toast. Best way to take the drier snuffs is to take a large pinch between thumb and middle finger (or index finger but middle finger lets you take more), bring it very close to your nose, then don’t sniff, but rather, with your lips sealed, slowly drop your jaw, like you’re suppressing a yawn. This makes a slight vacuum that’s much easier to control than sniffing. The rappees are hard to take for the opposite reason - they’re really coarse and moist and heavy and can be hard to get into your nose in the first place. Best way is to put some on your hand or thumbnail and just sniff away, they tend to have a good burn to them but this fades quickly and they don’t get into your throat or lungs at all. They’re messy, you’ll end up with snuff on your face and some will fall out your nose onto your pants/the floor, that’s just the nature of rappees though, not for public consumption And of course everyone’s nose is different, this is just how it is for me to give you some frame of reference.
Is snuff referred to as blends, mixtures, …? Thanks.
Most just say snuff, pipe tobacco is referred to as blends and mixtures since they are produced by blending and mixing different tobaccos, and saying ‘pipe tobacco’ each time is bit clunky.
…if you don’t like the toasts (some people find them very difficult to take at first though by no means everyone) save them for the future; if there’s one snuff I can near guarantee you will like eventually, if not immediately, it’s Fribourg & Treyer’s High Dry Toast. The rappees are hard to take for the opposite reason - they’re really coarse and moist and heavy and can be hard to get into your nose in the first place… …And of course everyone’s nose is different, this is just how it is for me to give you some frame of reference.
x2 on all counts. I’m a relative newbie myself… about a year enjoying snuff and similarly finding snuff after years with pipes, but that is another story… I bit off more than I could chew with a few finer and drier snuffs and even made the regretful error of discarding some, but have come back to them and really appreciate them now. Just hang on to something if it doesn’t strike your fancy. Your tastes WILL change. Keep them around and give them a shot in another month or two. Toasts and Scotches are still challenging sometimes. (High Dry Toast can still makes me cough sometimes, but it is a damn fine snuff.) And I’m still trying to get on with coarse grinds, but there certainly are some delicious ones I have tried. Much like with finding a new tobacco for our pipes, the opinions and suggestions of those with more knowledge than us can serve as a guide to steer you in a certain direction, but eventually, you will like that which you like. Welcome and enjoy.
Thanks to everyone. Your encouraging words and insightful knowledge is helpful. I feel lucky to be a part of a community of people who are willing to take time to share information. It’s given me a great beginning context to start from. I hear you on the holding onto things smreno77. I let go of some tins of tobacco in a trade that I wish I had back now. A lesson learned for sure. I’ll won’t make the same mistake with snuff. Thanks again everyone and feel free to keep the advice and wisdom coming. I’m sure there will be other posts soon that ask some novice ‘no duh’ questions. Apologies in advance.