I apologize if this has been on here before the search doesn’t bring back too much results - but I wanted to know if anyone knew how much nicotine is in snuff?
I wasn’t bothered about it, seeing as it’s an alternative to smoking, then I go and read that a drop of it can kill a large rat. Lovely. So it’s got me wondering about the amount. Sometimes I can have a few snuffs at once, different sizes, etc, and I’m always wondering how much nicotine I’m taking. I’m not using snuff just for that reason, if I have a craving I’ll take as much as I need, but the rest of the time I enjoy it for pleasure, but I’m not sure on the offical opinion on nicotine being bad for you, and how much, and how much we take of it by using snuff.
Doesn’t Bernard have that competition to see who can get 10 or 20g packed into their noses the quickest?? That seems like it would be more than 60 pinches…
I don’t think 60 pinches would kill you, even if you got it up there, which is probably impossible. Even if it did stay up your sinuses would close up immediately. There may be some freakish individual who can do this but no normal person could.
According to past reading.Sometimes some groups of Native Americans and other peoples will smoke green(uncured) tobacco, which is much stronger than the cured form, some have even traditionally drank a cup of fresh tobacco juice(which is imo where it gets very dangerous). Whether in cigarettes, cigars etc., these uses can bring about a strong narcotic effect. I think that you’d have to take a lot of snuff before you would be in any danger of o.d. (by nicotine itself), you would have very strong effects on your psyche, and that you’d probably pass out well before you reach that level- unless you have a bunch in your stomach or something which hadn’t absorbed yet but inevitably will…Of course if you are consuming certain other substances there could be a reaction with the nic. But I’d say it would be extremely hard to o.d. by sniffing snuff- even if you really tried. I’m not a doc, this is just my amatuer opinion
I’m not too worried about O.D’ing but I’ve heard a lot about the negative effects of nicotine seeing as a bit too much can really mess you up with nausea, stomach aches, cramps, ains, sweating, mental deslusions, racing heart, etc, I smoked 3 cigarettes in a row in 10 minutes years ago and it was one of the worst experiences of my life so that’s why I’m trying to work it out. I’m wondering how much snuff I can get away with without going there
Because I take snuff, I’m still not sure if I’m taking much more nicotine than before. I’ve heard all kinds of things about the amount - 1/2 a pea is 1 cigarettes worth, 1 pea sized amount is 2 cigaretttes worth, etc. I like the pea sized amounts, but the only reason I space it out for 1-2 hours after until my next pinch is I’m worried about ingesting a few cigarettes worth of nicotine.
Theatre, Everyone’s tolerance levels are different, you should start logging (journal) your daily usage if concerned, find your happy medium, your body will let you know.
