Yep, its good to have one of these threads every once in a while, the different yarns are always fascinating!
This guy helped me work up the gumption to try it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwZeuW3B\_c4&feature=related Is he a member here?
Ive just watched it - and I don’t think so. He’s not on the ‘faces of snuff house members’ and I don’t recognise the screen name. However, he certainly knows (no pun intended) what he’s about so it is possible he resides here under a different name? Would seem odd for an expert who posts on youtube not to also be involved in something like snuffhouse?
That video was like watching a kung fu movie that’s been dubbed over in English. The guy in the pictures lips are moving, but I don’t think he’s the one talking unless he is a ventriloquist because several times his mouth is closed and he’s in the middle of snuffing but still talking.
Well, Neither of my parents used tobacco in any form. My grandfather was a heavy smoker his whole life and used to work at a printing company that made cigarette pack labels around the time of the Depression. There was always uncut sheets of label paper around my grandparents house, mostly of Lucky Strike, which I always loved the design. Well, about twice a month when I was a young lad, my Father would send me and my three brothers out along our street for about a half mile on either side, to collect trash and bottles and anything else we found. It was very wooded along the country road and I suppose folks thought it to be a good place to throw garbage. Besides finding some nice old bottles and the occasional skunked-out beer, we would find a pack of cigs from time to time, maybe that some one threw out trying to quit. We would promptly hide these and smoke them at a better time, or , as usually happened if they were wet, lay them out in the creek tunnel that went under the road so they could dry out. Almost 90% of the time they were Virginia Slims or some type of terrible menthol. Well, I went from there to buying my own and smoking real cigarettes, mostly Luckies early on. I’ve had stints with dip and chewing tobacco, which I still enjoy, but my love was always cigs. Then one day when I was about 18 years old delivering chicken in Cincinnati, I saw some colorful round tins in a very poor neighborhood store. I was attracted to them , mostly to find out what was inside, I suppose. I remember finally buying one and, upon opening it and expecting to find some sort of dip tobacco, and saying to myself out loud, 'What the hell is this?!!" Now that I’m a bit older and I had smoked for some 23-24 years, I realized I really had to minimalize the risk of my health going bad, especially after having 4 children and claiming I would quit after each one was born!. I happened upon this site and lurked around for awhile, doing some research and thought I would give snuff another try. Now I can appreciate the US snuffs that I swore I’d never try again , but was also introduced to some of the many English and German and Indian snuffs that make snuff so interesting to me. But I can say beyond a doubt, if this site didn’t exist, I would still be smoking full time. Even the days or visits I don’t post anything, seeing all the information, joking, articles, and reviews of new and coming snuff on this site keeps me committed. For that, I don’t know who to specifically thank, but I am very thankful. (And thankyou Snuffster for starting this thread. There’s some nice stories on here)
I came in contact with snuff when I was 12 years old. The good old Gletscherprise was available at every little store here in germany. With 3 or 4 friends we emptied the box in one day with many tears in our eyes, sneezing all around our village. 2001 I went to the octoberfest in munich and there it was common to snuff the schmalzler while drinking the watery stuff they calll beer. In 2004 one of my chiefs at the army in afghanistan at ISAF HQ was a american LtCol. He was dipping Skoal Straight. I asked him if I can try that stuff and he gave me the can. My first pinch in my life taken in the desert about 45°C hot, 2000meters high and the dip was shaking my body !Hehehe! After two minutes I had to sit down, sweat was running down my face and i had to spit it out after 5 minutes cause i felt sick. But I loved the taste of it and tried it the day later again, just with a smaller pinch and it worked. On that day another Officer of the Liasion-Officer-Cell(My working-group) saw me throwing in my dip. He was norwegian and came to me and said while my US-Boss was beside me: “Throw away that american shit! It’s full of nasty crap. Here take snus, 100% natural and better for your gums!” I took the can and the fight started between USA and Norway who has the better smokeless tobacco. After they have finished their dispute, Major Korsgard showed me how too bake the prilla and put in. The good thing was that in the norwegian camp in Kabul you could buy snus(for 1€ per can). And there my smokeless-carreer started 
After 7 months back in germany I searched for info about buying dip ans snus in germany and found the german smokeless-tobacco-forum and there I got contact again with snuff. From this time I stopped smoking with snus and dipped once in a while and my snuff stash was born and is growing and growing!
I started smoking cigarettes at the age of 12, one cigarette per day. AS from 14, I regularly smoked about 4 a day and I also bought me a little pipe. I bought my first tin of Singletons Menthol, also at the age of 14 but only used it on and of. When I started working a t the age of 17, I started smoking a packet of Lucky Strikes a day, no snuffing. It went up to 70 Chesterfield per day plus some cigars and/or pipe. I could not/would not handle it anymore. I then went to Smokenders and on the 14th of February 2007 I quit smoking. After about 2 months I found a thin of McC O&G in a drawer and tried it. And that’s where my true snuffing career started. Snuffing is so much more gentleman like, I have so many flavours to chose from, it’s less expensive and harmless to my body. I’m snussing a bit on the side but that’s not serious. I love snuff.
I originally heard about snuff when I was 17, and of all the places from a class called Drugs in Society. On the lesson covering nicotine they briefly touched snuff in passing, not even describing what or was or how it was taken, but something about the mentioning of it made me curious, so I googled it, and the rest is history. P.S.: I am glad someone finally posted a topic such as this, I was eventually going to want to myself, thanks for saving me the trouble snuffster.
Might I add, this place has been a valuable resource to a n00blet like myself.
I heard a commercial on the radio for mint (oral) snuff pouches. Since I desperately wanted to quit cigarettes I started researching snuff and came across nasal snuff by accident. I remembered me and some friends playing around with dry snuff as kids, using it kind of like sneezing powder. My first order was 2 tins off ozona and I quit smoking about 2 days later. I truly couldn’t be happier!
@kate. Try the Lotzbeck Vanilla. It will remind you of that bookstore for sure! It takes me back to the times I’d hang around the local tobacco shop absorbing all the wonderful aromas.
Thanks for all the great posts folks!
Way back, in the land before Time…well maybe not that far back, but just 12 years ago I started smoking regularly. My friends and I were only 9 years old when we thought it’d be a good idea to roll up some dried out grass, in some school paper, and Smoke It! What a bad idea, we choked and we gagged. Later on, I began to smoke regularly at about age 12, having no value for money at the time, I and some buddies would come up with elaborate stunts to steal Smokes from convenience/grocery stores. We eventually got caught, with a slap on the wrist, and rather serious warning. I was introduced to chew/dip at a relatively young age, but hated it. When I was 14-15 I started chewing as well. My first Snuff experience was incredibly painful. I still question why the hell i’d snort something up my nose that hard. I was with a friend, visiting his grandpa, in small town Alberta. His grandpa was not much of a tobacco user to my knowledge, but he did break out an older rusted tin of some sort of snuff; I think the tin was red and rather old, possibly rectangular, I have no idea what kind it was. This was it! He took a HUGE pinch in each nostril, then sneezed his brains out, lol. So my buddy grabs the tin, sits down and tells my to try it out, I obviously refused. He says something like fine then, I’ll do it, Sure enough he snorts it up there, bloodshot eyes, sneezing attack, brown snot everywhere, oohh the agony HAHA!!. After seeing that, I was like , meh it can’t be that bad. But it was. I did nearly the same damn thing, No guidance, Just snorted it up there like it’d be my last. I damn near punched a hole in the floor, my head felt like it was just operated on and then forgotten to be sewn up, it was terrible. So with that as my first experience, I never thought i’d ever be remotely interested in taking snuff again. Time has passed, at 22 years old I decided not to start smoking a pipe, because i know i’d never quit if i did.I wanted to quit smoking for health reasons, so i made a new years resolution to do it. Three days before the first I stopped smokes, and went directly back to chew full time. Then I became to wonder how to supplement my chewing with something else, Nicorette always gave me heart burn, so that was a no. Then it just hit me, I searched for snuff on the net and came to Snuffstore.co.uk I placed an order and really haven’t looked back since then. So yeah, Snuff is a great way to drop smoking for many people, I’m one of them. Good reading here, great topic Snuffster.
Nice post, thanks Avid.
Was introduced to snuff by an uncle who had been an inveterate snuffer and cigar smoker since 1920, and was instantly captivated. The curious thing is that no-one in authority seemed to object when, as a child, I was buying it and using it daily. From the age of eleven I continued through school with a snuffbox, taking it from my waistcoat pocket as and when I felt like it with never a reprimand from the masters - even in lessons. Get caught smoking, however, and you would be up for a head’s flogging. This is another reason why I’ve always considered snuffing to be a safer option.
I started smoking dope and cigarettes when I was 13. I did it mainly because my friends did. I quit smoking dope 3 years later, but still smoked cigarretes and chewed. My stepfather was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth around that time and had to stop chewing his two daily cans of skoal finecut wintergreen. He knew how much I liked trying “Higher Class” tobacco products and purchased me 10 various med-high quality cigars for my 18th christmas. My mom says he did it just so he could start smoking them as well! I started snuff just this summer, I was looking around for apartments for college downtown and stopped in a cigar store with my step dad to get some cigars. I found some snuff and always wanted to try it so I bought an old metal tin of Lorrilards sweet and a gawith cola. I hated the cola but loved the Lorrilards. It all took off from there. Its been about 4-5 months and I have amassed a sizable collection of about 65-70 different snuffs. I also smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day, and now smoke THREE. It’s just like Xander said, I didn’t even realize it was happening until I started saving a lot of money. When my last bag of MYO/RYO runs dry im done with smoking. At the rate I’m going though it could last me another year!
I took a pinch from my guitars teacher tin (not a good one, never discovered how to play it properly ) while he was at the bathroom when i was about 15 years old.
I had the luck of living near a wonderfully masonic smoke shop.
I started smoking cigarettes to improve my thought process while writing my thesis in religion and philosophy. Long after I stopped smoking cigarettes cold turkey, I started using Nicotrols for the nicotine. Later cigars, then pipe tobacco, and now snuff. At a pipe tobacco forum, in a thread about morning smokes, someone saying he uses snuff in the morning rather than smoking gave it legitimacy. I smoke only slightly less than before, but am snuffing all through the day as well. I haven’t smoked a cigarette since 1996, but have no intention to quit smoking pipes and cigars, or snuff. I stack high nicotine snuff on top of high nicotine pipe tobacco. The more the merrier. When did it all start? I have an addictive personality. My father didn’t smoke or drink, but he was addicted to playing Bridge. My second conscious addiction was to playing Chess. I was addicted to studying it, as much or more than playing. Day and night, on the bus, in my sleep, in the elevator between floors. I loved the audible psychic ‘crack,’ when an opponent would realize, too late, that it was hopeless. I’ve seen people absolutely lose their mind behind a game of chess. Requiring hospitalization. Some people, like me, take whatever they do to an extreme. Fortunately, I never lost sight of it being a game. Perhaps addiction is a normal state of human affairs. Perhaps successful people have been able to have an addiction to an activity that is contributing to their success. Fear of failure. Fear of lack. Perhaps the stereotype of the addicted artist, is due to an ability of a substance to calm and focus their mind toward a state of creativity. So often the person is consumed in the fire that causes their ‘mind to grow heated.’ The baseball dugout lined with cups, or the mind of Coleridge reflected in Poe, Picasso to Gabriel García Márquez. Perhaps, the best addicts don’t need any substance to get hot. Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. So nicotine, it is.
hey Herzl thats the best encouragement I’ve ever gotten thanks.