For me I watched a grest BBC Scottish TV series on the history of various addictions such as opium, sugar, whiskey (alchohol) and tobacco and during that program the presenter was in a tobacconist in covent Garden I think? and bing, on went that light in my head and I rushed out the next day to discover my local tobacconist stocked one snuff McCrystals Menthol and now of course only a few months later I have about a years supply of different snuffs. I had encountered some-one with some stale stuff about 20 years ago and had a pinch but back then it didn’t register in fact seemed pretty bad. I always wondered why snuff does not seem to be heavily marketed but I expect it’s probably something to do with government or large corperate interest?

id like snuff to stay under the radar, less chance of ridiculous tax. but i first actually tried it because i bought GH cherry along with some of my cigars from a website to give it a go. liked it, but since ive had other snuffs, i havent liked a GH since.

Not much of a story here. Went down to a local tobacconist to drop off a pipe for repairs and noticed that they had a few kinds of snuff behind the counter. Since it was next to the other smokeless tobacco products (i.e. chew, dip), I filed it away in my mind as one more disgusting alternative to smoking a pipe that had no appeal to me. But when I got home, I surfed the internet to read more about snuff, beginning with Wikipedia, then manufacturer websites (e.g. Wilsons), moving on to look at the very few health studies on snuff, and eventually ending up at MrSnuff and then this site. I was reassured that snuff was worth trying, and I couldn’t resist the allure of such an uncommon (these days, at least) form of tobacco. My first three snuffs were by Dean Swift: Dr. Johnson, Bezoar and Inchkenneth. At first Inchkenneth was my favorite, but now I can’t get enough of mentholated snuffs like Dr. Johnson. Bought a few Silver Dollar tins, but still prefer Dean Swift (which is really Wilsons of Sharrow). In order to get an idea of the different kinds of snuff that are out there, I’ve placed an order with MrSnuff that includes Dutch (De Kralingse), Indian (6 Photo), German (Bernard) and British (F&T, made by Wilsons) snuffs - that should get me started! I’ve also been looking for books about snuff, and will probably content myself with some of the free PDFs for now. This all happened this week, by the way.

i began smokeless tobacco which name is maras (rustica) then i searched for other types and finally learned something called snuff. I looked for it in my city and found it. At the first sniff i loved it.

I came across it whilst browsing online cigar shops.i thought I’ll give it ago and so glad I did.ive given up the smokes for nearly a year now.just snuff instead.feel so much better for doing so.there’s so many good snuffs out there I love it.

id like snuff to stay under the radar, less chance of ridiculous tax…

I thought this also. I don’t know anyone i.e. not online, that uses snuff and I don’t go about promoting it but I will let people try if the situation arises. I think if it did get very popular then surely heavy tax would follow. My sister is the only person that has really seen me taking snuff often. She did ask me to let her have a bullet of some to try which she says she likes but she is still smoking and I can see from the bullet she has hardly used any of it. I think she finds it amusing and thinks that am a little excentric for finding such a thing. I must admit I didn’t really want to her start using it. Something about it doesn’t seem lady like? She did look silly with it all over her nose.

Both historical and botanical research is a bit of a hobby for me and so I often stumbled upon snuff culture and the history of tobacco. And since I was already addicted since I’ve been 15 years old, I was of course very interested to try it. The first time was about 3 or 4 years ago, but I only had different Pöschl flavours then and they weren’t interesting enough for me to keep it up when my focus floated around to different topics. End of last year I started delving into it again, but don’t remember the exact reason. This time it will probably stay with me, since I really fell in love with it. btw, I too watched that documentary @I_snuff_therefore___ mentioned in the first post. they are all very good and I highly recommend watching all of them. they are availlable on youtube and are called “addicted to pleasure”, I think.

Hi otherwheres. Your English is very good for a Gardener in Germany which I think I just read in the intro section, so I assume you are not German. Doesn’t matter of course, just curious. I used to be a telecom fibre network test engineer contracting in Germany down in Nurenburg. when I returned to the UK I could hardly write correctly in English for about 6 months. Couldn;t stop writing K’s instead of C’s? I notice a lot of people are really entusiastic about snuff for example you say you fell in love with it. Don’t think I’m quite there. My main gripe is having to clean out my nose so often as I don’t like to pinch over old snuff and I dislike my nose being bunged up with dead snuff so there are some downsides. Nevertheless I think there is more to learn regarding snuff than cigarettes and looks like you have a good head start with your hobbie. I did watch all the programs. I also use to be involved in a local natural history club but job commitments spoiled that. Here locally (Ireland) I occasionally roam the local bogs which I find are beautiful wild gardens especially in spring when things get going again. Very relaxing. Got into bug photography for a bit.

Thank you very much for the compliment, actually I am German. But I really like the english language as well as the history and culture of those islands. I probably read more english books than german ones and occasionally even think in english, just for fun. I went to university once to study linguistics, but somehow it wasn’t for me and I wanted to do something more useful which also leaves my mental capacity free to wander wherever it wants to go, so I became a gardener, which was one of my better ideas. I hope I can visit Ireland soon, I’m actually planning a great trip in order to visit Wales, Scotland and Ireland since until now I’ve only been to England a few times. I also might get a job in a park near London for a few weeks. I’m just not sure how long it will take me to save the neccesary money to get there and I’ll have to find someone who’ll care for the dog for a few weeks. It’s all a bit difficult without a regular income, although very good in order to learn how to improvise and regularly try new things.

Kein problem. I learnt some German but I was best at it while drunk at beer festivals! I think the beer was called Andeckser and pretty potent. I was younger then, in fact I was a student in the fatherland in 1989/90 when a lot of big wall stuff happened. A great experience. If you ever do make it to Ireland then by all means call in. It will be tough to see all you are planning in a few weeks and we are probably becoming more eastern european now as we have so many migrants. I walk through the town here now and I only hear Polish, Lithuanian etc etc etc. I think the same is happening in Germany. Could be future troubles ahead.

Thanks lunecat. Maybe I’m peeing to much as I do drink an awful lot of tea and coffee and some juice and occasional alchohol. Maybe need to try some of that water stuff. The dead snuff mostly is the resultant clog from when I pinched before slumber, which is something I think I should try and stop doing, althoguh it is perhaps my favourite snuff time of all. I also noticed that I get these really deep sleeps so that my mouth has dried out also??? Went cycling today (about 10 miles so short run) with a bullet of F&T Bordeau to try. Very nice indeed.

I was watching YouTube videos and dighsx was pairing pipe tobacco and snuff, so I figured if its good enough for Jay I would give it a try. I placed a small order over Christmas, found a tin of McCrytals menthol at a local pipe shop while waiting for my order to arrive. Really enjoyed my first taste and got the fire in the belly to jump in head first and try out a bunch of different ones. Can’t wait to place my next order and find some more gems. Bernard’s here I come.

I was hiking into the foothills of the Himalaya mountains looking for spiritual enlightenment. While passing a small cave an old man, wearing but a loin cloth, stepped out and wiped his nose. He said “snuff”. I suddenly awoke from the fog of western materialism. I hiked down to the nearest town with a tobacco shop. I bought a number of different snuffs and spent 11 days hiking back to the cave. The old man came out and I said “snuff”. He replied, “I’m sorry you caught my cold”.

@asieg33, after your little thread on panties too, i have to wonder, are you high?

Mostly nicotine, coffee and boredom. I write very esoteric papers on a very obscure subject. Release from this discipline I take where I can as I do with snuff.

@asieg33, after your little thread on panties too, i have to wonder, are you high?

I think that thread was a reference to a slip of the keyboard by a member in a thread about tissues vs hankerchiefs, and the word ‘panties’ got posted instead of hankies. I discovered snuff when I dried some tobacco leaves, ground them to a powder and sniffed them up my nose. I gave the secret to the local Haitians, and they took it from there. Who would’ve thought all these reincarnations later it would still be popular?

I’d always been aware of snuff from books and stuff. I was smoking and dipping all through high school and bought some camel snus one time. I liked the way it tasted (for shame!) but it was really weak so I started googling around and found out about real snus. I started ordering that and loved it for a year or two. I learned about snuff from snus forums and ordered a couple of tins from northerner, Poschl Red Bull and Gletscherprise IIRC. I didn’t really like either of them but some time later I decided to give it another go for some reason and ordered stuff I actually enjoyed and I’ve been snuffing ever since. I also remember one time in high school I ground up some old rolling tobacco to snuff and really liked the uplifting kick it gave but I didn’t give it a proper chance until college.

My idiot brother fell in love with an entire group of au pairs years ago. Their tour ended and they all went home. Every one of them declining my brother’s pathetic marriage proposals before they left. So my brother saved up some money. He took his friend to Germany and stated knocking on each girl’s door unannounced. Not one would open the door, literally, so he ended his trip after two or three days and dragged his now pissed off friend home. They walked in the door and his friend asked me angrily “you want this”? He threw a black box of Cola Snuff at me and walked out. I think he wanted to forget the whole ordeal…

A Pöschl-display on the tobacco counter of a department store in Aschaffenburg, Germany, did the trick for me. I bought a small yellow box of McCraig Royal and a small tin of Singleton’s (which, if I’m not mistaken, was manufactured by Konstanzer at the time), carefully hid them from my parents’ view and brought them back to Holland. This summer it’ll be 29 years ago, and I’m still at it.

HR_pufnsnuff Right you are. I did as musicians say, a riff on the post you refer to. Thank you for getting it. Not sure why it was found so offensive. Out of both pique (no relation to the similarly named tobacco from Louisiana ) and curiosity I entered the “panties” into the search box and had many returns. I may at this point mention that in a thread or two I read reference to Victorian Men’s Clubs. I belong to 2 London and 1 Oxford Men’s clubs that predate the Victorian and am familiar with much of the culture from stories passed down and from reading. these clubs were sexually obsessed and the mention of panties would occasion no comment. If one was to read a thorough biography of Benjamin Franklin one would find that the clubs of the 18th century were as or more wild than anything that can be found today. Of course the snuff story I told was but a snuff story. I first found snuff in about 1971 when, stoned out of my mind on a variety of chemicals, I wandered into a head shop. Already having a head and insufficient room on my shoulders for a second, I picked up some Ozona fruit flavors. I’ve done it on and off since. Much more since giving up cigarettes and discovering more positive medical research about nicotine.

My boss told me about it and that his buddy did it a long time ago. I had a long fight coming up so I thought it would be good to have on the trip. I couldn’t find it anywhere, but then I hit one gas station that had SD. SD Cherry launched my love of snuff. My first order ever was from Toque and included 100g of Quit. It’s shocking when you first see how much snuff that really is.

Already having a head and insufficient room on my shoulders for a second, I picked up some Ozona fruit flavors.

So… Not Zaphod Beeblebrox. Or Ben Franklin. -check-

I was aware of snuff but didn’t think anyone actually used it anymore. I was on a forum for RYO smokes and someone mentioned it on there, I found some Ozona Cherry at a smoke shop used it a little and put it away. I recently pulled it back out and searched it online and ended up here. Funny I had money in my pocket back then.

I was introduced to snuff at a rev war reenactment. I’m in a German (Braunschweig specifically) unit fighting alongside the Brits. Before battle, our corporal pulled out a tin of snuff. I know it was WoS, probably CoC, and everyone in the unit took a pinch. I was hooked right then and there although I’d never been fully addicted to tobacco.

As a teenager in London in the 1970s. School chum and I wanted a nicotine hit without getting “done” for smoking at school, or whilst in uniform. It worked. Some years later I was even offered the fine snuff bowl of the City Livery Company to which the school was connected, when we visited their hall in the early 80s. First snuff: small blue box of J&H Wilson SP No1. Remember it as fiercely nose-stinging - still think it’s a pretty “raw & rough” base-level product. Later introduced to refined snuffs at the total opposite end of the spectrum (Golden Cardinal, Otterburn) by that epitome of gentlemanliness and charm, Vivian Rose of G Smith’s. Just sorry I never discovered F&T while they still existed in the Haymarket. Took my nicotine mostly by smoking from around 1983 - 1999. Restarted using snuff a few years into the 21st Century.

@TomStrasbourg, your corporal should have had Brunswick!

An ex-boyfreind introduced me to the pleasures of snuff. It was one of the coffee flavoured English snuffs although I don’t remember which. I tried smoking a couple of times and it did nothing for me, but snuff was relaxing, clean and something I thought to have disappeared a century ago. I now consider it one of life’s perfect pleasures.

most people discover cigarettes from the films but when i watch historical films i have never seen an actor snuffing. Think about Napoleon films. As far as i know he was a serious snuffer but not in films!

A mate of mine asked if I’d tried snuff as he was interested, and I said no. Little white lie actually, I once got conned into trying it when I was about 8 by someone who thought it would be amusing to see my reaction. Anyway, he tried it and didn’t like it - but he gave me the tin and I did. One month later here I am

@lunecat okay then here’s mine mate… long time lover of all things ancient (I’m a Napoleonic history buff and a Freemason-- historian of my Lodge #226 Olin)-- well, a while back, I just got tired of smoking pipe (still love it, but variety is spice of life) and decided to give snuff a go… Was sitting here at work dipping Copenhagen (ALWAYS) and suddenly, the urge hit me to put a spot up my nose for the He11 of it, and whooooooshhhh… 10 minutes later, I found myself taking an early lunch break to get up to the grocer’s and buy some Navy (that was the ONE I knew of)-- LOVED IT… Went back two days later… bought ONE OF EVERY SCOTCH they had… Fast forward a couple weeks— after talking to you @lunecat, @basement_shaman, @jayson etc… I made my first Mister Snuff order… Fast forward one week— a fellow member took pity on poor me for only having Americans and he sends me a fat bag of samples… SG, Toque, etc… I am in LOVE— never need to smoke again really… Snuff is tops and thank all for helping to introduce me to this wonderful method

Nothing too interesting for me, had a cold went into my local tobacconist to buy some cigs, saw some J&H WIlson Medicated No99 thought it might help clear the nose. And here we are today

Around 1980 I worked in a tobacconist shop called the Tinder Box. We carried a variety of snuffs back then but I wasn’t very interested. It was pipes that held my passion. But when a friend who also worked there insisted that I try a particular snuff I finally gave in and was amazed at how much I liked it. That snuff was called Count Murari and at the time, a 5 gram small snuff bottle of Count Murari cost $5.99. It was billed at the time as the most expensive tobacco in the world. Well, I don’t know about that but I know that I sure did like Count Murari. Sadly, they stopped making the stuff around 1983 or so (not sure exactly when). I tried a few other snuffs but nothing was nearly as good, to me. Since that time I have tried snuffs on and off but never found anything as good as Count Murari. (I still have some by the way). However, I now know that there are a good number of snuffs available today that are better–a good deal better–than Count Murari. And upon learning this earlier in 2013 my enthusiasm for snuff has been rekindled and expanded.

I made a trip to Germany in 2007 with two of my friends. One of them said that he wants to test something called “Nasescheisse”, which he had seen in some tv-series. At that time, I had never heard anything about snuff, I was perfectly unaware of its existence. Well, in Germany, my friend bought some, brought it back to Finland (where I’m from) and kept offering it to everyone he met just to see their reaction. I tested it sometimes and thought of it as pleasant, but didn’t really get into it. Couple of years later we were back in Germany and visited the old Bernard Schnupftabak-fabrik in Regensburg. After hearing about the history of snuff and testing some samples, we went to a local tobacconist to buy some suveniers. I bought Zwiefacher, brought it home, and kept it absent-mindedly in my pocket. It lasted for several months (it lost its menthol aroma so well that I was surprised of it when I finally bought a new one). I could forget it for weeks and then use it a lot at a time, only to forget it again. When I moved to Regensburg to be an exchange student, I started using snuff more regularly.

Very nice thread! My first encounter with snuff was at an American dormitory high school in the countryside of Israel as a teenager. I lived in Israel because of my mothers line of work. Me and the kids at the school were often bored and up to trouble… and when me and the gang discovered a store which sold a curious product, sniffing tobacco, we enthusiastically bought some boxes (Poschl President) and went at it like mad dogs. For fun. It was something to do. Years later I tried another box for shits and giggles. So I had never really forgotten it… but I had never really considered it something really to get into as an everyday hobby or serious alternative to other forms of tobacco… Now this year I visited Israel again for an old friends wedding and fell in love with his sister at the wedding. I decided to not show myself with a lip of snus around this girl, for the sake of preserving a refined impression… and I didn’t want to deter this precious female specimen with the smell of too much cigarette smoke either. So I fondly remembered snuff as a serious potential substitute… I eventually googled my way to snuffhouse and mrsnuff and the rest is history. I may add that I proposed to the girl now and we are getting married in the summer. She smiles curiously and affectionately at my snuff use and loves the constant array of aromas which linger around me. It’s all very beautiful.

Well congratulations Mario84!!! See, you just never know what snuff will do for you in a world of uncertainty…

Here’s mine. One day, tired of babysitting e-cigs, I tried to use e-liquid nasally. It didn’t really work. After some research I found out about snuff. Sold the e-gadgetry and been in love with snuff since.

Reread Kipling’s “Kim.” One of the characters, a Tibetan lama, was an avid snuffster. Wondered if the stuff was still made, and could it be used to quit smoking. Found some Garrett at the local Indian cigarette store. Trial by fire! Reseached online, discovered Mr. Snuff. Done deal.

I was 13-14 at an older friend in his 20s house drinking and ran outta smokes and money he had a large tin of snuff so we started using that all night

I’d known about snuff ever since I was a kid, and like many people, the mythbusters included, I thought snuff was the same thing as dip. I eventually learned that it wasn’t. Then eventually my curiosity got the best of me and I did a google search for it and found toque. I was giddy at all the different flavors, so I had to try a few. Toque Cherry Menthol was my very first snuff experience ever.

When I was a kid, my grandfather had a grain elevator on his farm and to avoid explosions he would leave his pipe and matches in the truck and grab the RR Mills Maccoboy which dipped and snuffed through the day. I tried it, didn’t like it. Years later I saw some Poschl at a local tobacco store while buying some pipe tobacco, bought it for sentimental reasons, tried it and liked it.

I discovered snuff when I went to my nephew’s wedding in Memphis Tennesee. My first encounter was with W.E. Garrett Sweet and Railroad.

Online, because I am into trying various varieties of tobacco. One day about 5 or 6 years ago I happen to come across nasal snuff on a Google search. I was aware that it was used previous times in history, but was kind of amazed and intrigued that people still used it. Then fast forward few years, bought my first tin of Silver Dollar at my B&M cigar shop. Then 8-9 months ago I started to branch out, through ordering online. The wonder of discovery.

My first snuff experience came from my great-grandfather, Ruford Beckett. This dude had a sense of humor, let me tell you. When I was 8 (I have previously stated that I was 12 but my sister assured me that I was 8), my family and I was out on a Sunday visiting relatives. The last stop was his house. As was often the case, my sister and I were exploring the enclosed porch/patio where all the gardening tools and other implements of outdoors yardsey type stuff was stored. While poking around, I happened upon a metal can of Navy plain scotch. I had no clue what that meant, though I loved the packaging for some reason. I guess the old school has always been my thing. A short time later, Ruford came out onto the patio for something or other and I showed him the can and asked what it was. “Oh that is just some snuff” he told me as he took the can and opened it so I could see. “this is tobacco you snort up your nose. Want to try a pinch?” Naturally, I replied in the affirmative. Ruford took a pinch and showed me how to hold my hand. He then placed the small pinch in place and told me to “go ahead.” I did. Way too hard. After I was able to breath enough to start coughing, I noticed that Ruford was on the small couch just a laughing his ass off. Yep… I miss that dude sometimes. As an aside, I kept trying snuff over the years but didn’t really get into it proper until about the time I joined Snuffhouse. I still have not revisited Navy plain.

Like my gramps I remember my brother taking a puff from his cigar coughing like hell then gramps finished it and put it out on my brothers hand oh the silly childhood we had and our annual camping trip that’s where this happened

Couple of years ago I realised it got too cold in the winter months to light-up my pipe outside (I work nights) - and bingo! Here I am. With more snuff to hand than you can shake a stick at…