I haven’t read much about snuff accidents and horror stories, and I experienced an accident yesterday. My mom, my wife, and myself were working on getting Thanksgiving dinner ready and I stepped out into the living room to have a take of snuff. I was looking at a picture on the wall as I unscrewed a tin of Toque, and then realized that the tin was upside down as the snuff poured over the edges of the lid. There was snuff all over my hands and the carpet. I flipped the tin over and managed to save most of the snuff. I had to run the vacuum so the dogs didn’t get into the snuff on the carpet. I’m a dumbass.
Oh dear, you weren’t tempted to get down on all fours and sniff it up were you? That would have been a Thanksgiving to remember. I live in constant fear of a similar thing happening to me, but so far all I’ve managed to do is leave some brown residue on my nose and then interacted with fellow human beings.
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I remember once taking some snuff in my office. I carefully wiped my nose afterward as I typically do and thought everything was just fine. But an hour or so later, when walking through the reception area, one of the departmental staff looked at me with horror on her face. I went and looked in the mirror and saw a large, dark brown, encrusted snuff-booger hanging half way out of my nose. Since then I look in the mirror to do a “booger-check” far more often than before. To borrow your term @Jim, there are times when I am a dumbass to be sure. And those times are not limited to the context of snuff use. I can be a dumbass in other ways as well. ~X( :-S X_X
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@Jim Don’t feel bad Jim, it’s happened to me, except the lid overflowed all over my keyboard.
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Too many to mention, but the most interesting was on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) returning from a WesPac tour in 1975. A full half ounce tin of Dr. Rumney’s turned into a big brown cloud that I tried to save by jumping up and down sniffing at the wind. Of course it was caught on film and was played on the ship’s CC Television system making the mess deck my hall of shame from Perth to Alameda.
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I once took a pinch whilst driving with the window down. The draft blew some snuff into my eye which hurt quite a bit!
Oh, yes–I like to have a fan going in the bedroom. Of course, I hit the Hedges during the night–Hedges in the eyes is not fun!
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Too many to mention, but the most interesting was on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) returning from a WesPac tour in 1975. A full half ounce tin of Dr. Rumney’s turned into a big brown cloud that I tried to save by jumping up and down sniffing at the wind. Of course it was caught on film and was played on the ship’s CC Television system making the mess deck my hall of shame from Perth to Alameda.
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I never know which snuffs to take to work, so I tend to take 'em all in a small case in my rucksack (I cycle). When I got home from work a few weeks ago the lid had come off my 10g tin of Royal George, with the result that there was about three pinches left in the tin, and the rest spread throughout the case. I managed to spoon most of it back, but I have to say I didn;t mind too much because it smelt lovely! Went to open my tin of SWS Roslein the other day without looking at it - felt the knurled edge of the tin, then with my thumb I felt the label to work out which way up it was, just started to undo it when I thought “hang on - there’s a big label on both sides with this one”. Suffice it to say, looking down I realised I’d just had a narrow escape.
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This one isn’t funny. My favorite three year old is fascinated with my snuff tins, particularly the ones with animals on them, she always asks for the empties. I gave her a White Elephant tin the other day, which she used for storing chocolates. The tin can’t have been clean, she swallowed one of the he chocolates and had a dramatic vomiting fit. I’m still in the dog house and quite right too.
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Egads, I just dumped several grams of snuff onto my notebook keyboard … reading about the accidents of others is making me feel better about it, though!
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@JakartaBoy, my four year old is very fascinated with my snuff as well. Mommy calls it " daddy’s treats " 
That is a horror story. Getting sick from W.E. must not have been nice. Poor kiddo!
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One time I had some snuff(Abarxas Connoisseur Cerise that I took to work and when I came home I left it on my “snuff table”.When I decided to take some like five days had passed from when I left it there where like white mold on it. It looked like it’s was growing from the snuff.I had to dump it outside since I didn’t want any spores around also had to clean the container with alcohol. Here in all Hawaii since its like tropical weather so the humidity is very high and sometimes when its like in the 80s that humidity at 90% it feels like mid nineties so it’s hot & sticky. So now I store all my artisan snuffs in the refrigerator also some damp ones.Also if you’re doing the pinch method I recommend using from a other container and leave your motherload in the fridge to keep it fresh. But I’m pretty sure u guys know this already. Thanks I appreciate your time for reading this. Peace&Aloha "\m/;
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I have many snuff boxes and normally put small labels on them to ID the contents . Well low and behold I pick one that wasn’t labeled so I smelled it; Ah Swiss Chocolate I thought. Proceeded to take a large spoon full with no restraint only to realize seconds later it was the wickedness known as FUBAR BOHICA. After cursing ,tears and loathing for this vile concoction. I had dumped the contents on my tulip bed to keep the squirrels from digging. Washed out the box then packed it with baking soda for a week then washed it out several times again. That is my Horror Story live and learn!
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Took a hit just seconds before my Criminal Law professor (avid tobacco HATER) came down the hall, turned around to greet him and met him with a brown streak coming from my nose. Apparently he thought it was something more criminalizing than tobacco, his statement “hitting the hardstuff huh?” didn’t really make sense to me until about 45 minutes into class I realized I never wiped my schnoz…
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What a great idea for a thread.
Years ago I brewed a batch of henbane ale (after the late Christian Ratch’s recipe) and brought the bottles I had left to my little brother’s bachelor party. I was on an NTSU kick, so I was pissed on henbane ale–which means scopolamine and hyoscamine on top of the alcohol, making it VERY psychoactive–trying to snuff some NTSU, and spilled the contents of the can all over the carpet. I salvaged what scant grams I could and the vacuum snuffed the rest. 
I once carried one of the old cardboard cans of Garrett Scotch in my coat pocket. Big mistake: I lost half the can in my pocket, and it wasn’t clean enough for me to emulate Samuel Johnson.
Then there was the time I got my morning pinch of Rumney’s Export in my eye. Talk about an eye-opener! There are tapboxes which I foolishly neglected to remove from my pocket before my trousers were washed. They actually held up; the snuff inside was the same as it was before.
I carry a bag with me wherever I go with some basic survival items, rations, a few books, snuff, handkerchiefs, field towels, etc.; and more than once I’ve had snuff spill all over everypony and everything in the bag.
I’ve gone hours in public with snuff on my face; not the nose, which I keep scrupulously clean with a handkerchief, but further up, probably left there as I was cleaning newly-snuffed snuff off of my nose. Several times. Hours! With companions in front of everypony! And finally one of my companions points it out and I’m like, why the devil didn’t you tell me before? I’ve never received a satisfactory reply to this query…
I’ve become more adept over the years at properly storing and transporting snuff, though I still get it in my eye sometimes; but I think (and hope!) that the era of big snuff fails is behind me. No, scratch that–there’s always more to learn with snuff, so there might be some catastrophes in my future.
Dumped an entire large tin of Mc Crystals on my laptop about 5 years ago.
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Ooo, I had forgotten…a couple years ago I was at the VA psych doctor and I took out a box of–I think it was a WoS snuff, about twenty grams or so; I fumbled and spilled the whole thing onto the carpet. The mess was galactic. Of all the times and places! I got up what I could, but that wasn’t saying much. Needless to say there were questions, but my interlocutor knew what nasal snuff was so it wasn’t as big a deal as it could have been.
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Holy Cow, last night I was taking a spoon of TPS Thangam Madras snuff, I had the snuffbox on my blanket with me underneath said blanket. It was dark except for the Yule tree lights on the other side of the room. I open the box, place the upturned lid next to the box, and get my spoonful to its destination. Something on Coast to Coast AM got my attention and I stopped focusing on my snuffbox for a minute. When I “returned,” I lifted the lid to place it on top of the box. I overturned the lid…
and realized that what I thought was the lid was actually the box itself, which I had just overturned, spilling the entire contents onto my blanket. In the confusion I forgot to retrieve the real lid, so after I returned as much of the Madras as I could to the snuffbox I shook the blanket out, sending the lid sailing into the darkness. Upon waking up I noted that the snuff inside the lid had spilled onto the carpet where it landed.
Sheesh. I had foolishly queried aloud whether yesterday could possibly get any worse; I reckon that should teach me not to ask that anymore…
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Oh no! My worst disaster to date! I could cry. I made a big twist, aged it in a wonderful sauce, then allowed it to slowly dry. The result was awesome. You see where I’m going here… I was in the basement grinding it for it’s final time in the coffee mill, shaking it, etc for about 5 minutes in. Then during a smack to knock the snuff sticking to the walls the cap fell off and at least half spilled all over the floor. It could have been worse, I still have about 45 grams but I was supposed to have about 100. Ugh so much time down the drain, I’m going to replicate the recipe today to get it started before I run out, ugh what a disaster though.
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Enjoyed Butternut Toast Old Mill all day got congested and blew nose and some how it shot up past the napkin into both eyes! Was not fun at all…
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