have you guys had any issues taking snuff through airport security? I don’t want to get stopped and have to explain what the brown powder is.
I would just have snuffs in their retail product containers.
I have my bulk (tins) in my carry on and I carry my daily in a smash box in my pocket. NO METAL! No one has ever asked. Tom
I’ve had no problems carrying lots of snuffs and snuffboxes in my carry on. I agree with tom502, make sure you have some retail containers. My biggest delay was due to putting a stack of magnets (the kind that stick to business cards) in my daughters carry on. Caused quite a stir, and a big delay since they felt the need to nit pick through everything after that, and they had to get clearance from the higher ups to let us get through. I remember when flying was a good thing, and the only bad part was waiting for the no smoking sign to go off!
As tom502 said, packaged snuff should be fine. I’d avoid white snuffs though…
Ive had a tin of Toque opened and been questioned about it but it was very clearly a tobacco product and the customs officer was more interested than anything else. Loose snuff in snuff boxes with your baggage and anything on your person in its package should be fine, at the end of the day if they field test it its not going to come back as drugs so no real problem bar the potential inconvenience.
I fly fairly regularly and have never had any problems apart from one jumped up little tw*t at Ronaldsway airport on the Isle of Man. Who decided to open every tin I’d got and then decide to search me and my bag with a fine tooth comb, all that was missing was the rubber glove ffs lol. Stefan
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Only in so far that they would feel it to be suspicious, it would come down to the individual officer. Its best to have things packaged, when you think about it they are only doing a job and may have no idea about snuff.
I travel a lot - and I’m stopped in security sometimes. Especially in the UK. In Stanstead I was once asked to “take out my mobile phone” of my pocket. I was carrying my W&S wooden box, which has a good size for travelling, and is made of wood - and says SNUFF on the lid. Nonetheless the gentleman questioning me was scared to death when I told him that it contained a very powdery tobacco and that I’d better open the box myself for him to see. He stared and stared at the snuff, turning the box from side to side, and so called for back up. An elderly security officer came up, and the first guy asked him “what’s this?” with a blank stare. The older security officer glanced at the box for one split second and replied “it’s snuff - can’t you tell?” - the younger guy’s blank stare became dead-fish-like, and he just handed me back my snuff box, and I shot off a witty comment when leaving security “Yes sir - it’s the best snuff in England - straight from the Sheffield Mill!” Needless to repeat the way in which he looked at me. Obviously the older security officer was himself a snuffer or at least immediately knew what it was. And this happened in a country with an estimate of more than one million snuff users last year. Some representative from the snuff manufactureres in the UK should really approach security authorities and notify them what snuff tobacco is.