Every time I take a dry/fine snuff I have to blow out a cloud of “excess snuff” so that I can inhale and enjoy the scent without breathing tobacco into my throat and lungs. I take a gentle sniff, blow out a huge cloud of snuff, usually cough (at least with scotches and D White), and then sit back. Is that “normal” I guess? Not that I really care, it does make me less likely to use those snuffs in public though just because the snuff cloud reeks to non-tobacco users and gets on my clothes and sometimes face.

Not good to get snuff in your lungs, try moisten your nose prier to using extra fine snuff with a nasal spray or just a couple drops of water on your finger tips.

@basement_shaman…probably already know… But PLEASE describe a symptom / feeling that YOU would get IF you got or ever had snuff get in your lungs?

@AANYCAARDS -My lungs are shot from 40 years of abuse, cancer stick , demolition dust, construction dust, chemicals fumes , pressure treated lumber,other smoke damage. So my pain my be less fun then yours. I feel irritation as it enters the top of the lungs if a cough is triggered I get some relief,I get a stabbing sharp pain that last for more than minutes then a general ugly disposition. Please protect your lungs if your young." I not wearing that stupid dust mask" bad decision on not seeing my future. Now I have proper respirators when working around contaminates.

As noted have nares moist, snuff, then I like to gently pinch my nose so the walls of my ‘snortles’ (as my kids used to call them) come together and all stays properly in place.

With toasts and other fine snuff I like to breathe on my pinch a bit (like when fogging eyeglasses to clean them) to moisten it a bit before sniffing. Or a quick spray of saline solution in the nose before sniffing. I too, pinch my nose to stick the snuff so I don’t puff out snuff.

With toasts and other fine snuff I like to breathe on my pinch a bit (like when fogging eyeglasses to clean them) to moisten it a bit before sniffing. Or a quick spray of saline solution in the nose before sniffing. I too, pinch my nose to stick the snuff so I don’t puff out snuff.

I like to hydrate fine snuffs a little bit in a jar with a damp peace of cloth in a cap or some orange peal, then there doesn’t seem to be any problems with it going to far down the throat. Also as TobaccyLassy pointed out, one’s breath will impart moisture to the snuff. Take a nice big pinch, and then hold it up to your nose for a bit to enjoy the scent which will add some moisture to it, or just breath on the snuff with through one’s mouth. Then some like to release it in a controlled manner by rubbing one’s fingers together

@AANYCAARDS -My lungs are shot from 40 years of abuse, cancer stick , demolition dust, construction dust, chemicals fumes , pressure treated lumber,other smoke damage. So my pain my be less fun then yours. I feel irritation as it enters the top of the lungs if a cough is triggered I get some relief,I get a stabbing sharp pain that last for more than minutes then a general ugly disposition. Please protect your lungs if your young." I not wearing that stupid dust mask" bad decision on not seeing my future. Now I have proper respirators when working around contaminates.

Ugh I know just what you mean, when I used to be a heavy smoker of marijuana and cigarettes I would get sharp stabbing pains in my lungs and would even sometimes cough to the point of vomiting. I can only imagine what state my lungs would be in if I’d kept toking and smoking for a few decades. Moistening my fingertips works really well, thanks for the advice.

On the super fine snuffs I use my lungless sniffing ( http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/5831/finally-an-end-to-the-coughing-fits ) and exhale through my nose afterwards. It’s the only way I can take them without having to roll the dice on getting it into my lungs. The really fine ones can still slap the back of your throat if you’re not careful, but at least you’re not coughing up a lung in the middle of the office.