I tried researching this and came up with very little. I’m hoping others here can help. Please avoid political issues out of respect to our hosts who run a clean, friendly environment for discussion. Speculation and generalities are fine, I don’t think there is much available in factual study. UK, Western Europe, Canada, USA, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. What sort of insight can you share on the users of (nasal) snuff around these areas? From my experience, nasal snuff in USA is virtually unheard of. I’d venture a guess that it would be more likely to run into a cocaine user, than one who regularly uses snuff. I would guess that most users are current or former smokers who find nasal snuff as an alternative to smoking or ideal when smoking is prohibited. Also a guess is that the age-gender grouping is 25-65 and primarily male (skewed in the same manner that cigar or pipe smoking is seldom seen in females).

27, Male, USA

69, Male, UK.

42, Male, USA

56, Male, USA

20, Male, USA. I’ve never run into anyone taking snuff on the street but I’ve had a couple converts.

38, Male, USA

22, Male, USA

39, Male, USA We did a bit of a survey here in the past and at least as far as snuffhouse goes the average age was 37, and we are about 90% male. Most members are in the USA, but that’s probably based on the relative size of the USA’s population. There seems to be a more or less even distribution geographically in the US. The UK was second, probably becuase they have a much higher per captita snuff taking population (and snuff aware population for that matter) however its still largely an obscure thing even there. Germany was naturally third, and their snuff taking population is probably close to the UK’s proportion wise, but the forum is in English so we get fewer than we would. Also there are German and Polish snuff forums out there we are competing with. After that, its a smattering of individuals from other countries, with a bias towards English speaking countries (Canada primarily), and European countries (with the curious noticiable absence of France). Snuff taking in general is moderatly known and accepted in eastern Europe, Poland in particular. Also India is huge, but the usage is often oral. Brazil and South Africa have strong snuff tradtions as well.

That’s a nice summary, Xander. Good to know I’m one click above normal for once,as well.

39 male India.:the snuff taking culture in india is huge both oral as well as nasal.Here the women, mostly villagers ,are the predominant takers of snuff with the males opting for smoking

@ Xander, well said that man. As you know I’m in the UK. The other day I tried another pub that I had never been in before in my life. A stranger, in my home City! I was at the bar and took out my snuff box, took a dose. A chap next to me said:- “Mate can I have a pinch” From then on I just wasn’t drinking alone. I had to re-fill my box when I got home.

@ Xander, Quote. “(with the curious noticiable absence of France)” Don’t ask my for the facts, dates, or anything. But some time ago there was an understanding that English would be the spoken word. & French would be the written word internationally. We the British broke that agreement, I’m trying to write in English right now! I was heavily into International Short Wave Radio, some years back. Just write in English to Radio France International, I bet you will receive a French Letter Back.

Fair enough Snuff Head, but I tried searching the internet in French for snuff, and other than a snuff box collecting I have found very little. A few forums I’ve browsed through seem to indicate that most there are not aware of it, or think of it as anachronistic. The French speaking part of Switzerland seems to be aware though since snuff taking is still well known there. I guess I should have mentioned the Swiss as well, though we don’t get as many from there as we should.

In Asia besides India Tibet and Mongolia have a great snuff culture as well . Don’t know much about China though

@Vikas good points. I think in China it exists on a micro scale. Probably seen as a novelty. I think most in the US regard it as a novelty as well.

Just reading my latter part of what I just wrote, I think I’m bound for the out of context thread!

50 Male USA

21, Male, Canada! Not many people at all out here seem to know what snuff tobacco is… But that’s ok, we’ll educate 'em!

@Xander Thanks for the overview! @MikeMoose education indeed… saving the world one nostril at a time

20, Male, US One guy who dipped knew about it from his baseball coach he was the one who told me it doesn’t cause your nose to fall off, snuff is kind of a submarket with poschl being the only real available brand at a couple tobacco shops before they pulled out which will hopefully be replaced by toque.

27, Male, USA

39, Male, USA

40,male, uk

This would be more of an internet user/snuffer survey anyhow.

39, Male, UK

There is an African contingent spread across many tribes and countries that doesn’t have much of a voice and would be probably next to impossible to quantify. From the small amount I’ve read over the years it seems snuff can have deeper social meaning for some African people than for us - ie, used at specific functions etc. I grew up in the North of England and was aware that many Indian people, especially the older end, took snuff. I’ve also seen snuff and other oral tobaccos used by Asian people in London communities. Again, I think it might be difficult to quantify use in this group. Snuff is also used in Tibet and Mongolia.

19, Male, UK. Pretty much everyone I’ve ever come across knows what snuff is. I’ve never met anyone else who takes it, but I’ve had a few people take a pinch, and a lot of questions about it. But I’ve never met anyone who didn’t know what I was doing, or talking about.

28, Male, Canada

23, Male, England. Again, the majority of the people who see me taking a pinch know what I’m doing, usually gets a “I didn’t know that stuff was still going” or something similar though! Edit: Whereabouts in the North are you Snuffster? I’m sure I read a previous thread were you said Burnley. I could be thinking of somebody else though. If so, I’m just down the road in Darwen.

48, male, Dublin, Ireland.

32, male, USA.

Burnley, but London for the last 25 years.

33, male, USA.

25, male, Chesterfield, England

Ah cool, interesting. You’re not one of those unfortunate Burnley fans are you?

Thats unavoidable to a certain extent. You can take the boy out of Turf Moor etc etc…

Ha! Well an unfortunate (at the moment) Blackburn fan here! The way were going I expect we’ll be playing you again next season!

42, female, London, UK, I have friends who will take a pinch now and again and I have actually converted 3 people to snuff since I started in about 2008.

43, male, USA. I know of two others in my town that take snuff, both males 40ish.

26, male, NY, USA “I’d venture a guess that it would be more likely to run into a cocaine user, than one who regularly uses snuff.” I would not venture a guess, I’d tell you with certainty that I’d run in to 100 cocaine users before 1 snuff user, probably a lot more than 100 ! That being said, I’ve talked to a few tobacco junkies who claimed to be familiar with nasal snuff but I’ve never once seen anybody using it in person, other than the 1 or 2 people I’ve offered it to and they accepted.

24, male, s.c, u.s I live in rural south carolina and I only know one old man that actualy use’s nasal snuff and he mostly put’s it in his lip. but over the last few months I have gotten afew friends to try it only one still ask’s if he can have some lmao.

48, male, USA I started my best friend on snuff and now both of us are happy snuffers. He enjoys Toque Menthol almost exclusively.

67, gentleman, South Africa, Snuff, Snus, Pipe and fatty meat on the BBQ

33 Male, USA

58 Male, USA

49, Male, USA

24, male, USA. Converted my girlfriend to snuff before we started dating nearly a year ago.

52, male, USA

68, male, The Netherlands.

49, male, USA.

31, Male, Bulgaria.

When I first started taking snuff in public in the early 80s I was always convinced people thought it was weird but Ive been doing it so long I never notice now. I wonder how much of it was just my own sense of unease. Ive handed it round at meetings at work and been surprised how often people would take a pinch without batting an eye. There are a lot of us out there (or else you woudn’t be able to buy SP at just about every small shop in the UK - we just tend to be a discrete bunch. Snuff with abandon I say…

51 male USA. I guess I was 46 when I started taking snuff.

53, male, USA Having strong roots in the American south, despite being born in Ohio, I knew about snuff from a young age, but the folks that used it were almost exclusively old ladies who dipped it. I only knew of nasal use through historical depictions in movies. The people around me who know I take snuff seem pretty cool with it, although few are willing to sample a pinch themselves. Of course, the people I work and socialize with would nearly all be categorized as open-minded and at least slightly eccentric.

36, male, USA

42, Male, USA

25, male, US of A

62, male, English A more relevant study might be: Smoker, ex-Smoker, Never Smoked X <5 grams daily, >= 5 grams daily It is assumed that any respondents would be snuffers. The bi-variant frequency distribution could then be filtered through a chi-square for a test of statistical significance. I’ve never seen such a study but my guess is that an association does exist - it just needs to be demonstrated to a level of statistical certainty.

46, male, USA Is someone going to take all this and make a pretty pie chart?

33, Male, USA Ex-smoker, >5grams/day Never met another snuffer

It’s amazing how few and far between snuff takers are. Also no wonder finding nasal snuff at regular retail is harder than finding hen’s teeth.

28/m/Nashville Tennessee, USA Converted my fiance to snuffing! She carries her own Tripletech snuff box now!

41 going on 14, male, Switzerland (British expat), snuff about 3g a day, ex-smoker - only use snuff now.

@ what snuffster said. If you act shady while snuffing it makes you look shady like you’re doing something illegal. If you do it like it’s nothing then people will think it’s nothing. What can they do if they think you’re doing something illegal? Not much. I find it funny that people will talk about how they never see a snuffer and how they snuff on the downlow. Yet snuff does sell in america. Makes you think most snuffers are in hiding.

32, Male, Canada

59, Male, USA

55,Male,Texan

An addendum based on PhilipS’s well-reasoned comments: Former 2-pack-a-day cigarette smoker. Now I’m a regular snuff taker and snus user, and occasionally smoke a pipe. Still smoke a cigarette once in a while, but only once in a while.

22, Gentleman, England, UK

30, missouri U.S.A., male There is a small group of snuffers around town here. I am a huge tobacco user as I use all kinds of tobacco at least once per day. It’s one of my few hobbies I really enjoy.

here’s this thing.

thendrix65804, where in MO are you? I am just north of Warrensburg MO. edm

@Pike Mopers nice job. I’m surprised that 18-25 skewed so highly.

^ I think that might have to do with the way us younguns are inclined to use internet-type-things. I’m sure if we took a survey of every snuff user world-wide that the 18-25 age group would be quite a bit smaller than the rest.

31, male, uk. A number of my friends are snuffers but none match the depth and breadth of my habit.

Good point, Pike. This survey is really only a sampling of Snuffhouse members, not snuff takers at large. I expect most snuff takers don’t think its worth reading about every day and just get on with taking snuff as part of their routine.

50, male, USA

Nearly 30, Germany, i had my first snuff with 12 from some far away relative (Gletscherprise, of course ). In Germany most people i meet know what snuff is but only a few are out to try it, but i meet a couple of people during the last years who liked snuff (but they do it only a few times… but better then nothing i guess). There are people in my surrounding which all had a pinch of Gletscherpris

21, male, USA

Nearly 33, UK, Male - Pipe smoker and incorrigible nicotine fiend!

@TheBoggart “incorrigible nicotine fiend” Big smile… heh, I know the feeling. It’s getting bad when one dumps the ashtray and then licks it clean *grin*.

27, Male, United States

@xapken YUCK! That made me gag a little…

@xapken That is quite nasty, you might as well drink the swill at the bottom of butt filled beer bottles while you’re at it.

31, male, single-citizenship naturalized: USA (formerly Philippine citizen). 20 minutes from Oakland, 45 minutes from San Francisco, old-hood city trying to claw it’s way out by forced buy outs and a lot of stucco development - (tacky).

36 male, Toronto, Canada. I’ve yet to meet someone in person who takes snuff. Non-smoker excepting the rarest of occasions.

@snort Not too far from you. I’m out near Trenton. I grew up in Toronto. Beaches. Kingston and Main. Are you GTA or Cabbage town?

I’ll do this for my fiance 21/female/Nashville TN USA Prefers Samuel Gawith and F&T scented snuffs. Took quite a liking to Grand Cairo. Thata’ girl

57, male, US I first used snuff when I was about 14 and took it up seriously about nine months ago. Haven’t looked back. I’ve never met anyone else who knows what nasal snuff is, other than my brother who took snuff with me when we were kids. He uses it occasionally now because he gets all my menthol snuffs. I’d love to turn someone onto it, but everyone who’s tried freaked out about the burn. At least a couple have given it a go; that’s something. Cool thread.

50, Male, U.K (Wales)

@ddavelarsen I wonder how much of the burn issue is with ph adjusted high for a better nic hit. Maybe stash a tin of something easy for first timers?

Dholakia swiss chocolate. One wiff and they want it in their nose. happens everytime.

28 Male USA

30, male, China

45, male, Finland. I’ve yet to meet another snuffer here, outside my fellow pipe smokers. Some of them do partake occasionally.

34 England male

@squarefiend , what part of the philippines are you from? My wife is a filipina from Dumaguete City, we were married there in 2008, in the Summer time…it was so freakin’ hot out…of course I’m a northerner from the Adirondack Mountains, so when it gets over 70 degrees…its too hot…lol

32,Male,USA I live in SW Florida and have not met one person that uses nasal snuff,i also do not of any store that sells it.

35, male, UK. I was first introduced to snuff by some younger people I vaguely knew at a pub several years ago who were taking it as a bit of a novelty. Since then I haven’t met anyone who uses it, and anyone I mention it to usually either hasn’t heard of it, or seems to think it’s an obscure thing of the past. However, there must be a market for it as the local tobacconist in town has always had a pretty good selection of snuffs, including several different Poschls and old and new English snuffs (Hedges l260, a few Toques, tapboxes of SG and HG, some WoS etc. etc.)

32, male, The Netherlands. I converted 2 friends (of which one female - to show the counter of this discussion that there áre some girl snuffers out there) to snufftaking. One of them did it because he couldn’t smoke for hours on his job as a flight steward. He saw me taking snuff once and it was the first time he saw it. From this month on, my nearby tobacco dealer sells some snuff (mainly Pöschl following their marketing campaign), I think my friends kept asking for it. I must say, it is very easy to pick up a tin just around the corner, instead of having it in the mail!

20, male, Bulgaria/student in London Ive been preaching about snuff pretty much ever since I started and have converted one friend although he’s not a regular user, but I do know a couple of guys my age who were pretty addicted. Too often people are reluctant to even try it at all, or if they do decide on it, it turns out that I’ve brought something not too beginner-friendly like a toast. From my observations not many among the students around me know about snuff. I still get the occasional odd look even though I don’t really care. Good point @snuffed, Id love to open up a snuff shop in London, only if I had the money… Im sure that with some good marketing it would take off eventually.

What’ s this, I click on my handle and it provides a what-you-done on snuffhouse.org. Sorry for the late reply jbruckus. I left Quezon City in 1993. BTW. love your chairs : )

64, Male, USA

41, Male - like nearly all snuff users it seems to me -, Germany.

33, Male, USA

40, male, British Columbia, Canada.

21, Male, England

Dunno if I’ve posted on this before, but here goes: 26, M, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

You did, but you said you were a year younger. Maybe 2. I don’t know If I can beleive you anymore with such an inconsistant story

Lol@Xander. I’m only recently 26, on 25/06. Stefan

35, male, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! yeee-haaw! (boy did that sound redneck?)

32, male, US Michigan. Don’t know anyone else who takes snuff, and never even heard of it 'til I came across a video review on youtube.

I dunno if I’ve done this yet 28/m/US Tennessee

29, male, Canada. @thorgrimnr what part of BC? Edit: never mind, I just saw your post on the intro thread. Welcome!

I don’t think anyone is collating anything anymore.

63, male, Chicagoland, USA

26, male, Louisiana, USA Apart from friends I Have offered snuff to, I have never met another snuff user. Pity.

58, male, Rochester, New York, USA Just about as far away from New York City as you can get in this state. Go any farther north and you get your feet wet in Lake Ontario.

Always wondered where the phrase ‘Dutch courage’ comes from?

40 french(but don’t know personally dsk… ) Lorient(very close Morlaix town) Male and mail.

Vathek, you bring up a very interesting point about life that I’ve noticed. I’ve noticed that the higher social cricles I travel in, the more smoking is accepted. I’m not necessairly hinting at cigarettes, but cigars are very common place. I know quite a few MDs that smoke pipes and all. I’ve always been a bit perplexed by that phenomenon.

Gin is one of my favourite drinks, trouble is it makes me that depressed when I drink it I don’t do it often. Plymouth Gin is by far and away the best gin IMO. Stefan

Gin collect many nicknames, “ma’s ruin” for s.Gawith(nice²)

53, male, Belgium

23, Male, Arizona Started Nasal Snuffing and Cigars at the age of 18.

27, male, Madrid, Spain. Five years snuffing

35, Male, Texas

30, Male, UK.

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