The whole snuff rennaissance is still mind boggling to me. Pre-internet I thought I knew everything about snuff and had tried every blend known to man. I was like a frog thinking his puddle was the whole universe :)) My daily rotation was a bunch of snuffs from a proper tobacco shop in town and they had a couple of Poschl snuffs which were regarded with wonder. I got the occasional Tranter’s snuff because the tobacconist had one or two. Tranter’s would send you a little paper price list and it was the most exotic thing, getting snuff through the mail. Indian, US, German (bar 2: Gletcher and apricot) and the rest were years in the future. I made the first Abraxas (only it wasn’t called that and I made it with a mix of cigars and RYO tobacco, often with a large can of JandH thrown in for good measure) about 1980 for myself and about a dozen other people I had evangelised into snuff, btw I hasten to add that I don’t put cigars, RYO or other brand’s of snuff in Abraxas anymore
Then came Snuffhouse, wow what a shock that was! meeting the likes of Troutstroker, the Prof, Philips et al quickly established that I knew precisely nothing. That was a great day, not a bad one, because at last I could actually learn more. The online stores and Toque brought us into the modern age. I would love to have seen how Roderick would have operated pre-advertsing bans on TV and then print media. I think the UK would have turned to snuff in a couple of years and I firmly believe snuff would have reached the level that smoking did in the 1920s and 30s. Even battling against the tide of bans and adversity he has probably saved thousands of lives, which of course will never be recognised.
Long live Snuffhouse
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