is it possible to die from nicotine overdose through taking snuff? has any one experienced an over dose or any symptoms?

No, no and no…

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

I am pretty sure that I died the first time I took snuff… because now I am in snuff heaven!

Snuff heaven.!. im on my way there !

You can make yourself feel sick. With any tobacco product.

Ha… good how we can laugh at over dose

Nicotine Poisoning , courtesy of Wikipedia: Historically, most cases of nicotine poisoning have been the result of use of nicotine as an insecticide; however, such use is less frequent now[when?] than previously. Sixty milligrams of nicotine, the amount in about five cigarettes or half a cigar, has the potential to kill an adult who is not a smoker[1] if all of the nicotine were absorbed. This figure is ~120 mg in chronic cigarette smokers, smoking an average of 20 non-light cigarettes delivering ~1.7 mg of nicotine each daily. One cigarette’s-worth of nicotine is enough to make a toddler severely ill. In some cases children have become poisoned by topical medicinal creams which contain nicotine

I saw an episode of CSI where a girl killed her boyfriend by filling his condom with nicotine. It was the insecticide version of nicotine though…

A drop of PURE nicotine will kill a grownup human being. Drops of pure nicotine are not available in the trade.

csi has gone crazy on that one

I once smoked a large cigar that was so good I nubbed it and became sweaty and naseaus after it. I guess that is a sort of overdose. I didn’t learn anything from it because the next time I got one of those I nubbed it again, but with no ill effects because I had eaten first.

One would get violently ill before they killed themselves. So in theory you could OD if you kept using while you vomited… …sort answer is no, you can’t OD with commercial products with normal use.

As shown, too much of anything can kill you, or make you ill. Even water. The point is in the practical forms that people consume tobacco it would take some work to do that kind of damage. Ken

I don’t know about overdose, but the closest I’ve gotten is feeling nauseated and sweaty, similar to a panic attack, from doing snuff and smoking a pipe at the same time. Seriously though, you’d probably have to eat a lot of snuff to die from it.

Enough speculation. Just looked it up…somewhere between .5 and 1 mg of nic per KG of body weight…so if you weigh 150 pounds (68 kg), assuming you are somewhat tolerant to Saint Nic, it would take about 68 mg of nicotine to Die, not to experience the other, very nasty side effects (confusion,chest pain, and seizures being the more severe, pre-death side effects.) To put that in perspective… 60 pinches of snuff into your nose AT ONCE…as your body invariably begins metabolizing nicotine immediately… 7 Snus Portions or 6 or 7 grams of dip…again, not likely as the nicotine must all enter your body at once… or probably around 60 freaking cigarettes…SIMULTANEOUSLY… You would have to be trying to die from nicotine overdose, and if you got that much nicotine in your body, you have more issues than tobacco abuse. *not a doctor, just a nursing student, don’t take my word for it, but for the LOVE OF GOD don’t try it, as the anti-tobacca nazis will use it as a perfect example of why tobacco should be illegal. In fact, I think the useful life of this thread has expired*

Not so fast matsnuffs. We need to take a look at some independent researchers to validate your claims. First up, copenhagenup:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rZ9wAhEuf4Yes folks he is still alive he logged into youtube 6 days ago.

Oh god. That’s. . . vile. . . or something… Okay, that settles it. ODing with nicotine, for all intensive purposes, is impossible.

Anyone whos chawed long enough knows that the hard part of nicotine overdoes is getting your body to absorb it well. For example that video how much of the nicotine is that guy actualy getting into his blood stream?

Reminds me of the movie Thank You for Smoking. There was a spokesman for Big Tobacco who was abducted by anti tobacco people and his whole body was purposelly covered in Nicotine patches in an attempt to kill him. The only thing that saved him was the nicotine tolerance he had built up over years of smoking. Basically he turned this around into “Cigarettes saved my life” which enabled to the company to sell more cigarettes. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Tobacco its quite good.

Quality

I’ve only overdosed on cigars, Cuban Partagas; they’ve enough nicotine to kill a horse! Better double smoking time with those.

@ John; Didn’t that make him hyper-sensitive to cig’s that if he were to smoke again he would die? Hollywood. I too saw some CSI type show that somebody injected a victim with a toxic dose of nic which caused a heart attack. Hollywood again I imagine. I’ve gotten sick while out fishing before while smoking a cigar and taking snuff at the same time, ironically I believe it was a Partaga too. Not one of my smarter moments. When I’m not complaining about my sinus issues, I use as much as 10g of Rooster, or Dholakia White in a day without any problems.

The thing with nicotine is that all the ways people use it are pretty ineffecent ways of absorbing it. For example when you smoke or snuff or snus you get a very small amount of the nicotine that is actualy inside of the plant same thing if you eat the plant too. If you have pure nicotine it’s pretty dangerous. getting injected with it certainly could kill you pretty easy. Not sure what the actual function that would kill you is (if it would be a heart attack or something else.)

I think the only way for a healthy adult to off themselves with tobacco would be to make an infusion from strong tobacco and drink a pint or so. The other methods would likely just make you too sick to carry on. A guy I knew who went on a binge weekend chain smoked corona’s and ended up in hospital, but he collapsed before he could do much damage. His body stopped him going too far in effect.

yeah you’d really have to try and plan it.

Funny, after this discussion I recieved my new box and new 4.65oz can of Rooster. I did a triple take of each of the triple methods with my new box. After being clogged up the last week and almost strictly smoking cigs, I actually got i’ll after taking the equivelent of 6 pinches of Rooster in a row while smoking at the same time. It’s not the first time, I should know better.

Richard Gere-type snus overdose here.

Wow. Richard gere likes snuff?

Well, he likes gerbils.

Why do I doubt that anyones ever done that except maybe Mr. 74 snus (might have the number wrong)

I’ve known people to put “E” in there behind. They call it “colon rollin”. Back in my rave party days, I avoided this method.

I avoid E personaly. Find it does odd things to people who do it a lot. For some other drugs it’s called booty bumping. Here is another theory maybe the dude was drowning and someone rememberd thee ole tobacco enema (before cpr they would literal blow tobaco smoke in a drowning victims anus, it could easily kill someone but it would start the heart up again. Oh and they had a special device to do it just so you don’t get the wrong mental image).

@Bob: I find it baffling that the scientific and medical communities discovered the permeability of the rectal lining before they discovered cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Priorities a bit wrong or what?

nah people have been sticking things in their bums for a really long time. People are kind of odd. Seriously people have been using anal suppositories of some sort or another since at least the middle ages.

Odd is not the word. Anybody that sits there thinking “this cigarette/painkiller/stimulant works really well when I put it in my mouth, hey, I know! why don’t I stick it up my backside?” deserves to be committed to the highest security psychiatric hospital available at that time.

I think Maya nobles used to consume wine rectally when they couldn’t drink anymore, they were notorious binge-drinkers. They had spesific vessels for that and servants to administer it. What a dream job!

And cocca and coffee too as far the maya go.

frankly too me it doesn’t seem any more mental then some of the uptightness people have about their bodies in general. I guess I’am saying the fact that it’s the last way I’ll take anything even if it’s the safest way to do it is little crazy. Since it doesn’t really have an reasoning beyond my thought of yuck. Plus I’am imagining that the first time someone stuck something there medicaly it was probably a preperation H type situation. Then they said hey I noticed something. That’s my guess. Though I’am still scared of mister 70 some snuses in his bum.

I’ve heard of alcoholic women soaking feminine hygene products in high alchohol vodka or even grain alchohol and inserting it into there feminine parts, I don’t know if I should believe it or not, but still. Bob, at my age “E” would kill me. In my 20’s though, and as a former raver and d&b dj (which I still do as a hobby) I’ve had my fair share. I never did it the rectal way, but still, it’s a very nasty thing. But snus in his bum? If it was packets it must have been camel snus, which I have a ton of “free” copons if anyone needs. I only use it when I’m working and I’ve been laid off since june. Maybe I should try my Rx vicodone in my bung. I am kidding of course. I’m completely off topic here, and I appologize. I will refrain from making anymore posts in this thread like this. I think we’ll all a little off on this one. SORRY! Oh Bob, after using E consistantly for several years, it’s taken my mind almost ten years to fix the side effects, and I’ve still got more fixing to do. I hindsight I wouldn’t recomend it to anyone. There are plenty of other ways to see and taste music than MDMA that won’t burn a hole in your brain!