As a smoker going through a pack a day, I’m having trouble imagining how much snuff I would use up in a day. So, in an attempt to figure this up, how long does a 10 gram tin (I picked that because that seems to be the average package size) last for you, the steady snuff user? Thanks in advance

Well I just quit smoking a little over a week ago and a 10g tin lasts a couple weeks, and thats using 2 pea sized pinches per nostril every 30-45 minutes. But the main thing is, use however much you need to use to curb your cigarette cravings. There is no set amount and its all based upon your needs and wants.

@mryan09, I have 10g tins which are still going after 2 years. I’ve also emptied a 10g tin in 24 hours. All depends of what’s in it and how “hungry” I am!! Use as much snuff as you like (did you ever check how long it takes to empty a packet of cigarettes)? Snuff is so cheap, you don’t have to worry about the cost, it’s so much nicer and it does not harm your health. So, just go for it and forget about the rest! Btw, I smoked for 47 years

How long does your’s last? Used to be 15 to 20 minutes but now that I’m old, I can’t even get it started.

If I just concentrate on one particular snuff 10g may only last me 2 to 3 days, and some 10g tins last over six months.

My favourite snuffs go very fast, lots of the new ones I try take months to finish, just take some whenever you feel in the mood, it’s not about quantity but quality and enjoyment.

@pieter claassen On cigarettes it’s usually a pack a day unless it’s been a particularly stressful day then it’s more. But like you said, snuff is just ridiculously cheap in comparison (cigarettes are right about 5 bucks a pack where I live), so I guess even if a tin were to only last one day it would still be a cheaper habit.

@ Pieter - LOL on the “taken out of contest thread title” joke there… I’m only 28, so timeframe is just a matter of how much time we have… (and maybe how many pinches I can sneak in during position changes)… haha

Oh hell, I just caught the joke… Nice one guys!

Being a heavy user I almost always buy my snuffs by the pound. 4.5 lbs purchased in drums lasts me approximately eight months, which is equivalent to about 8.5 grams a day. Annual cost is roughly £180 as there is only an ad valorem tax to pay in the UK - no Customs and Excise duty on snuff tobacco since 1978. Before quitting addiction to Villiger cigars in 1995 my daily snuff intake was probably a modest 2 grams bought by the tin. The cost for my previous Villiger consumption at today’s price would be a crippling £6,174 per annum. The pecuniary advantage alone is good reason to take snuff seriously

I’ve been snuffing for about 4 months now in combination with snus to help me quit smoking, and then I realized that taking snuff was incredibly fun in it’s own right. I mainly use snus in the afternoons and evening, and usually have about 10 25 gram tins going at once, and have yet to empty one in four months, and in the evening I’m taking a pinch every 15 - 30 minutes and usually stay up until 3AM. Former 1 - 1 1/2 pack a day Kool and Newport smoker. Snuff is insanely cheap in the U.S. right now. Even if the PACT Act passes, it will still be cheap compared to Newports.

@LHB I hear ya, you couldn’t find a pack of any brand of cigarettes for the price that snuff sells for. I recently switched to the cheapest generic cigarettes I could find and they’re still close to 4 bucks a pack (really nasty tasting too). @philipS 180 (I’m guessing pounds) is only $270 american annually which sounds a hell of a lot better than 6.174 pounds or damn near $10,000 annually. Why doesn’t everybody know about this stuff?

"Why doesn’t everybody know about this stuff? " Because snuff companies never had the wherewithal for mass advertising. Apart from journals like ‘Tobacco’ the only snuff advertising I’ve ever seen in British national newspapers was that by J&H Wilsons who used the slogan “We’re as famous for pinching as the Italians.”. The last time I saw that must have been about 1980. Snuff making and taking remains a quiet backwater, but I dread the day that some interfering bureaucrat in the EU (probably a sanctimonious and self-opinionated female on a committee) makes waves to disturb the calm. Should snuff ever become well-known then that day won’t be far off.

@PhilipS You’ve got a point, politicians and bureaucrats love to find something to demonize so they can make a name for themselves. I remember a couple of years back (in my ignorant state of Oklahoma), attention was drawn by a pious ass in our state congress to a little known plant called Salvia Divinorum. In all actuality this plant (while having some psychedelic properties) was for the most part harmless, but emotional appeal from a semi-intelligent asshole and reception by a mostly ignorant population led to this plant being put in the same schedule classification as heroin and LSD. Meaning possession is punishable by up to 25 years in prison. And I don’t suppose I need to even mention the smear campaign that Cannabis Sativa has suffered over the past 70 years… I can only hope that the EU and it’s member countries show themselves to be a bit more rational than most of the U.S. state and federal branches of government…

Salvia is not a harmless plant. Watch some of the YouTube videos of kids smoking this stuff and completely losing control. Now Cannabis Sativa on the other hand - harmless.

Well my personal experience with salvia before it was illegal was pretty harmless, I saw some pretty colors and remember laughing a lot. But I can’t really speak for a bunch of dumb & bored teenagers who don’t research something before they decide to try it. Especially when they decide to film their experience and share it with the other dumb & bored teenagers inhabiting youtube. It seems similar to a kid getting drunk for the first time and posting it on the internet, which would probably look a bit frightening too if only a few people knew what ethanol actually did to the human body. But, cannabis… Yeah that actually less dangerous than tobacco as far as lethal dosages and adverse side effects are concerned. At least in my opinion…

Here we go guys, I found an advertisement on youtube for toque nasal snuff (I know, I must be one of the dumb and bored inhabiting youtube!). Anyway, it’s kinda humorous and has tribute to Benny Hill feel to it. You can check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsGAbAoM0Fk

@bigblue1 Thanks!

@ Lincoln Snuff: if I based my opinions of snuff on what I found teenagers doing with it on youtube, I’d call for it to be banned as well.

@mryan09 That clip was from a TV show called “Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em” from 1973–1978. It was a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. And yes, the music is from the Benny Hill show

“You’ve got a point, politicians and bureaucrats love to find something to demonize so they can make a name for themselves. I remember a couple of years back (in my ignorant state of Oklahoma), attention was drawn by a pious ass in our state congress to a little known plant called Salvia Divinorum.” The television presenter Bruce Parry used Salvia in a shaman ritual in a BBC series called the tribe (he presented a gift of snuff to a another tribe in Africa). Apparently it’s legal in most countries and US states, but Oklahoma clearly has an issue. I’m not informed enough to make a judgement on its potential dangers. “I can only hope that the EU and it’s member countries show themselves to be a bit more rational than most of the U.S. state and federal branches of government,” The EU removed customs and excise duty on snuff because their research showed that it was unlikely to cause cancer and other diseases associated with smoking. One expected, therefore, that the EU libel ‘Causes Cancer’ suddenly appearing on all snuff products was the prelude to a pogrom on snuff takers. However, medical opinion (including that of the influential medical journal ‘The Lancet‘) prevailed on that occasion and the appellation was changed to the current wording. For most of my snuff career there was no warning at all. (I note from pictures that appear on this site that some users remove the warning on principle.) Much of the machiavellian machinations of the un-elected EU mandarins in the Commission reflects irrationality. For example, EU Commission Regulation No. 1277/88 told us that a “cucumber must not bend more than 10 millimetres per 10 centimetres (0.4 inches per 4 inches) in length.” . This was just one of hundreds of utterly ridiculous regulations concerning the shape of fruit and vegetables. The set of laws has been scrapped, but decades of insanity saw astronomical quantities of foodstuffs destroyed simply because of its natural appearance. Most people don’t have a clue who their MEP is or who ‘represents’ their nation on the Commission.

I know we have the Right Royal High Lord Twat of Twattington aka Peter Mandelson is/was on the EU comission for the UK. Now the EU CONstitution/Treaty of Lisbon is in effect doesn’t it make you sleep soundly at night knowing we have right proper pricks like Mandelson, Kinnock et al looking after our welfare. BTW I realise sarcasm doesn’t come across well in written posts but you can be assured that this one was laden with it. Stefan

PS. That doesn’t mean to say I support the EU, the total opposite! I want out and I want out now! Stefan

“Much of the machiavellian machinations of the un-elected EU mandarins in the Commission reflects irrationality. For example, EU Commission Regulation No. 1277/88 told us that a “cucumber must not bend more than 10 millimetres per 10 centimetres (0.4 inches per 4 inches) in length.” . This was just one of hundreds of utterly ridiculous regulations concerning the shape of fruit and vegetables. The set of laws has been scrapped, but decades of insanity saw astronomical quantities of foodstuffs destroyed simply because of its natural appearance. Most people don’t have a clue who their MEP is or who ‘represents’ their nation on the Commission.” So from what I can gather on the subject, there’s not much positive public sentiment for the EU… I do have question for anyone who might be able to shed some light on the subject… About a year ago there was a new law passed in the U.S. that required all cigarettes to conform to “Fire Safe Standards” (an oxymoron of a statement, yes) and it really ruined the taste of tobacco. So my friend and I found a website that sold cigarettes from somewhere in Europe. We ordered some and when they arrived we quickly found out that they were from the small nation of Moldova. We made several orders with no problem until one day we went to put in an order and suddenly it would not allow any orders from America. Was this due to some kind of new EU requlation or would that have to be a law specific to Moldova?

mryan09: that was my video - think i must have come last in that competition as i didn’t get one vote lol I used less snuff when i smoked, now i just snuff average around 25g or so a week.

Every time I try to become an enlightened, political liberal (in the modern sense of the term), I hear something about tobacco, herb or drug control emmanating from the big government liberal establishment that invariably returns me to my Libertarian, Anarchist roots. As we used to say back in the 70s when certain political activists were trying to enlist our support “We don’t want power; we just want power to go away.” Keep snuff a secret; look what’s happening to K2 now that blue stocking, puckered asshole “moralist” politicians and beauracrats have found out about it.

The cucumber thing was established to protect women from hurting themselves.

@juxtaposer Wouldn’t a smart woman just go to her local “toy store” instead?

Moldova is not in the EU. I wouldn’t trust anything coming from there. I certainly wouldn’t send them credit information. FSC laws are state by state. Not a federal level law. Most companies did not want the added cost of producing two types of cigarettes, so they went to the FSC for universal distribution. I don’t know about this cucumber business, but most crazy sounding laws are only crazy out of context. I imagine it was to make sure people weren’t selling zuchinnis and calling them cucumbers or something like that. In law everythiing has to have a definition (a legal definition) before it can be talked about. Sometimes it includes measurements to create the limits of the thing that is being defined. I deal with maritime law frequently and although you might use the term ship and boat liberally and know the difference between the two, legally speaking both words are nonsense. Everything is “vessel” and different laws apply depending on lengths and weights of “vessels”. Really getting OT here…

The whole cucumber issue was just misinformation spread by the Daily Mail as I recall, and they have a known agenda. The regulations were about classifying cucumbers so that consumers know what grade they are getting, nothing to do with banning imperfect ones. Tabloid journalism…

As I suspected. Taken out of context for the purpose of propaganda. Typical.

“The whole cucumber issue was just misinformation spread by the Daily Mail as I recall, and they have a known agenda. The regulations were about classifying cucumbers so that consumers know what grade they are getting, nothing to do with banning imperfect ones. Tabloid journalism.” Mariann Fischer Boel, EU Agriculture Commissioner must be a reader of the Daily Mail. Regarding his comments on regulations - “More seriously, this is a concrete example of our drive to cut unnecessary red tape. We don’t need to regulate this sort of thing at EU level … It makes no sense to throw perfectly good products away just because they are the ‘wrong’ size and shape.” http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE55T2OB20090630

Maybe the cucumber lasted to long and hubby was jealous.

All I can say is that the 2 cartons of lucky strikes I got from Moldova were the best tasting cigarettes I’ve ever had… @pieter claassen Jealous of a cucumber? It doesn’t have a motor in it…

Crazy English Tory stuff about cucumbers, nobody actually couldn’t care less. But seriously, tobacco-wise ex-Soviet Union is grand, that is one thing commies always kept up and capitalist decadence only made things better later. Russian cigarettes especially are good with distinctive character, even the brands made under license are better than most of western produce. Still remembering that! And really missing a smoke now, Belomor Kanal, Samson rollie or Pall Mall plain. Not good.

i find the ammount of snuff i consume vairies with the strength and texture of the snuff. a strong fine snuff will last me a lot longer than a subtly flavoured snuff mild snuff.