Without going into the whole politics of the guvmint, postal service, and online sellers, after this whole MESS I’m going to start buying in BULK from my Local Tobacconist. After all I’ve had to buy from them 4 times in the nearly 2 Months I’ve been waiting for my order - Which may Never arrive anyhow! - after all, That’s what “They” want. (use your brains to figure out who “they” is) Check with your local shop, if they don’t have your favorite brand they can usually get it for you, just ask. Tell them you’ll be buying from them on a regular basis - X number of cans per week or month, etc. You think you got a lot of snow where you are? How much snow you think we got at the North Friggin’ Pole?? I’m Friggin’ Santa Claus

I ain’t using my local tobacconist except for pipe tobacco and Poschl Anis. They’re way too expensive compared to online snuff stores.

Too bad I don’t have a local tobacconist.

Yeah. I was stoked when a tobacco near me got General snus. I bought a ton of it and when I got home, I realized it was all expired. Unfortunately, all the “tobacconists” in the metro Detroit area are assholes.

I would but the only things I can get in my town are the occasional Ozana & Poschl Gawith Apricot. I always keep my eye out form snuffs & snus whenever I go out of town and I have got ten lucky a few times and scored some general snus and occasionally a can or two of American snuff both of which aren’t readily available in NW PA or SW NY.

Maybe once Mars gets his shop opened I will, though its not really local. That will be like a once or twice a year thing. Local tobacconists (if you can call them that) are not interested in carrying snuff.

My local tobacconist doesn’t really know anything about tobacco, oddly enough. Great selection of dips, chews (loose leaf, plug, and twists), cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco, though; but she has no idea what dry or nasal snuff is, and is under the impression it is somehow illegal. LOL Also equally clueless about snus.

@xander exactly especially in less densely populated areas like where I live. There is one store in a college town about 40 minutes from here who sells Tube Rose. Should say" has" there have been the same 2 cans there for almost 2 years and when I first saw them they were expired by over a year and a half. To top it all off he wanted like $20 for them. I did however once find Navy and Tops near Philly

About the only place close enough to be called a tobacconist has an excellent selection of cigars and not a few big canisters of pipe tobacco, and they sell a decent selection of RYO, dip, and looseleaf, but this being Michigan there’s very little in the way of plug/twist chew, and the only snuff they had were a few tins of Poschl at very inflated prices. Now that Poschl no longer sells here, they have zero snuff. They did get a General cooler and had stocked it (albeit tucked in an odd corner), but the past few times I’ve been there it was empty and the last time it was unplugged. Sigh…

My local tobacconists aren’t interested in carrying snuff at all. I see little reason to press the issue.

My local tobacconist, and i use that term very loosely, is more interested in serving the vast overall garbed, tractor driving population. (not that there’s anything wrong with that, i grew up farming). OR the younger generation that feel the need to wrap their “herbal tobacco” in flavored wraps(what ever happened to Zig-Zags?) Anyway, the selection of nasal snuf they do carry is limited to Railroad, Navy, Dental, Tube Rose, and Peach Sweet. Oh, and get this, the name of the establishment is The Tobacco Markette…highly original!!

The most prevalent local tobacconist has a pretty good selection of pipe tobacco and cigars, very few cigarettes, and half a dozen dusty tins of medicated snuff. They are progressive enough to offer a couple ecigs, but getting them to stock and promote snuff would likely be a total non-starter; there just isn’t sufficient demand to make it worthwhile for them. And with the FDA imposing so much labeling red tape, most of the snuff I use wouldn’t even be available to them to import. Toque being a wonderful exception. I have to believe that if they were to create a prominent display of Toque snuff, they might generate enough interest to make a go of it, but getting them to agree with that would be something of an uphill battle. Iowans are not innovative, in my experience. Maybe it’s worth a conversation though; I hate to be a defeatist.

@ddavelarsen I totally agree with u on that one. I hail from the south…and i mean DEEEEP south. Whenever i mention snus, thr proprietor thinks I have a speech impediment, and of course when the word snuff is mentioned he gives that wide eyed “are you blind” look and points to the copious amounts of Kodiak, Skoal…etc. I finally got through to him that i was looking for “dry snuff” (the wors nasal really threw him for a loop!). I asked him if he had ever thought of importing some overseas varieties and his response was, “Now why in tha HAIL would I import sumthin they make rat heeyer in tha good ole US of A?!” I give up…online orders it is!!

@fischtix that made me LOL! haha.

Me too, I needed that!

My local tobacconists don’t/won’t carry snuff. Heck most of them won’t even carry snus or dip. They are high class joints. I give a couple of them enough money for pipe tobacco and accessories I doubt they miss the paltry sums I spend on snuff. One store had snus for a while but they didn’t push it and it didn’t sell. Outside of one store that carries 2-3 Poschl brands, or used to, none of them know what snuff is let alone being willing to order some in for the one guy who would buy it.

My local United Supermarket carries Garrets Sweet&Mild and nothing else. But you can ask the manager to order another brand like Dental and other American snuffs and he will. I doubt he would go for European snuffs, but I am just thankful I can at least get a small selection.

I think it would be easier to find a store that sells crack openly then one that sells snuff. The last place that even sold snuff here didn’t advertise in anyway that they sold snuff. They kept it behind the counter. Before that was one place that sold dean swift and that was about all that made any sense for them to be selling so going local is not only not an option, even if it was the selection would most likely be brands I hate.

I can get dean swift from my pipe and cigar store but he’s not interested in looking into other brands unless sales pick up. He does seem aware of what it is at least though.

I’m quite lucky here, if I need some J&H Wilson’s, then I have a 5 min. walk to my local Post Office. Another 10 min. walk from there, and there’s a Newsagent selling quiet a selection of Wilsons Of Sharrow 10g tins, McC’s and Gawith Hoggarth. All quiet fresh has they have a good turn over…

Never seen any snuff in any local smoke shops. The Akwesasne Mohawk American Indian reservation is not too far from me, its where I pick up my cigars because tobacco is cheaper there. At the shop i regularly purchase from, i asked the owner if he has or has ever had any snuff, and he led me over to the chewing tobacco section. Some chews are labeled as snuff but they are for oral use. I explained what nasal snuff was and gave him a brief history on the subject, to which he seemed rather dumbfounded. I sure wish there was a local shop devoted entirely to snuff…but…oh well I can keep dreaming!

We are so lucky, in this part of the UK. for sure.

I’m starting to consider relocating to the UK.

Then it has to be HULL in Yorkshire, The Snuff Capitol!

The only place within around 100 miles of me that sells either snuff or snus only sells snus. Three brands (Thunder ES, Thunder Frosted ES, and Jakobbson’s ES) are offered for sale, $7 a can, after taxes. It’s at a sketchy headshop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the guy doesn’t even have a fridge. He just keeps it in a glass display case. On the plus side, it’s kind of on the way to uni for me, so if I’m real desperate, I’ll snag a tin here or there. Still, like so many of you, my local doesn’t carry what I use. Hell, even what I can buy from him isn’t properly stored! I think for now, I’m at the point where a once yearly order of snus and another of snuff will keep me properly stocked up, so I’ll just stick with the online vendors for now. If the Northerner can get somewhere in my area (I’m outside the city, and around here those $7 tins would be around $5) to start stocking it, I’ll buy at least a tin or two a week. Otherwise, to the interwebs for me.

My local “tobacconist” only stocks W.E. Garrett scotch & sweet and Bruton as well

If I ever go to the UK, I’m visiting that place and all the shops that carry snuff!

the only way you’ll get a decent snuff selection in the u.s. is under two conditions. Your tobacconist is a completest and wants to sell everything so he can say he does. The local I had that sold snuff did it for that reason. The other is if the owner uses snuff himself and knows that if it doesn’t sell he can use it himself. Either way the selection isn’t going to be good. Of course if snuff becomes popular again well you’ll be able to find it all over the place. Tobacconist will have more variety.

I hit up my local at least once a week its just for pipe tobacco. they do have WoS for sale along with general snus but its more a cigar place. they got me today …i purchased a glen tinsky 2007 pipe. Im happy with it … im happy with my store. as far as snuff goes i need to shop on the web to get what i like.

@snuffhead: Someone once told me that half of WOS production is sold in Yorkshire.

@ Nachman, that could have been true, until the 80’s. Then the coal pits closed. But with the no smoking in public places it is coming to be on going for not only Yorkshire

I think they told me that before the 80s.

I have to say my local tobacconist is pretty good about trying to please his customers, and will usually order anything he doesn’t have in stock, as long as he can get it from one of his distributors. However, there’s so little demand for snuff around here that it’s not worthwhile for him to stock anything other than a couple of American scotches, and they seem to have been on the shelf for a long while. Easier for both of us if I just order online. He does stock snus, but only General. (I’m not counting the display of Camel pseudo-snus.)

Actually the nearest to me is Smith’s, even though I think it was a lot better with the old management I do try to visit whenever I’m in the city, just using a snuff box from them at the moment.

WHSmith! I know you mean Smith & Son’s Nigel. I also loved to brows the bookshop in Ch, Cross Rd.

Yes, Smiths and Sons of course. And not to forget the incomparable Foyle’s - one of the few bookshops you can get lost in. I also love, being a guitar player, Denmark St, a stone’s throw away, for the music shops. @snuffhead Do you remember Vivien Rose, John? He WAS snuff.

If I drive 3 hours to North Platte, I can get WE Sweet and Mild. If I drive 3 hours to Cheyenne, I can get General Snus. The local discount tobacco store has some ancient Gletscherprise but can’t get any more. I’ll just stick to online shops.

Our tobacconist, Freddie, owns to shops, one locally and one in Stellenbosch only 15km away. We’ve become good friends over the years and he’s prepared to walk the extra mile. Only yesterday I’ve asked him to get us some Presbyterian pipe tobacco. Yesterday afternoon I received his mail to confirm that it’s on it’s way from Germany. He has also ordered me a Savinelli University pipe and I buy Irish Flake at a special price. Whenever he receives promotion stuff like cigars, he will contact me to come and fetch some. Also buy damaged cigars for making snuff very cheap from him. But snuff seems to be a problem all over. He stocks all the local brands plus…O&G!! No more because the demand is absent. I must have enough snuff to last for at least 5 years, so I don’t have a problem in that area. For the rest, I’m happy to have a Freddie.