I saw the post about snuff in films and thought this would be a similar and interesting topic. In fact, it is because of the following novel I will discuss, which I recently reread about 3 weeks back, that I began snuffing. One of my all time favorite novels features a snuff taking bounty hunter who partakes of Mrs. Siddon’s No. 3 & 4 Snuff and Dr. Johnson’s Snuff. The Sergeant he works under partakes of some Specific No. 1 Snuff. I was curious if these were real snuffs and did a bit of online research and discovered that all 3 were made by a now defunct company called Freeman & Gossage, Inc in San Francisco, CA. Published in 1968, the novel took place in the future, 3 January, 1992 - 4 January 1992. The Android (or Andy) killing bounty hunter’s name was Rick Deckard and the novel was written by Philip K. Dick and was titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. This is like the copy I have. I just love this cover. It is an absolutely brilliant story and if you haven’t read it - READ IT NOW! It was made into a Ridley Scott directed film starring Harrison Ford in 1983. The title was changed to BLADE RUNNER and there are no scenes of anyone partaking of any snuff. Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies. Perhaps you would like to share a novel you’ve read that has one or more snuff taking characters? Grant
Some of Sir Terry Pratchett’s novels have characters partaking in snuff, such as in “Moving Pictures”. The novel it’s most prominent in is (stick with me because this is a rather abstract name) called “Snuff”. That, by far, has the most events of any character taking snuff.
Thanks for the info, The_Persian_Slipper. I will research that book a bit later and see if it is something I might be interested in reading. I hope it will be. I recognize the author’s name but can’t place him offhand. Excellent title though.
Henry James’s The American has one character who takes snuff.
Thanks horus92. I’ll check it out.
I realize that as people post about such obscure things as snuff taking in novels they may not remember the name of the brand or brands that were used and, in fact, the author may have described said snuff only in a general sense, but if you do know the names of the snuff in the novel, as per my above post, and could include those, it would make for some interesting insight into what was available during the time of the books publication and perhaps what the author himself was enjoying while he was writing the book. I did read somewhere here on Snuffhouse yesterday that Philip K. Dick was quite the snuff user and I had assumed as much. Dick lived in San Francisco where Freeman & Gossage, Inc, the maker of the 3 snuffs mentioned in ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ was located. He, no doubt, used these snuffs and in one part of the novel he has the main character, Rick Deckard, tossing away a tin of Dr. Johnson’s snuff after taking some and then thinking to himself how foul the menthol in it smells so early in the morning. I’d fathom a guess that Dick himself had probably done just that prior to writing that bit. He certainly looks like a snuff taker. 
If I had one of those neat photo image enhancing devices like Rick Deckard uses in the movie ‘Blade Runner’, I could probably zoom right into Dick’s nose there and see some little brown bits of Mrs. Siddon’s No. 3 & 4 Snuff. Think I’ll have some snuff now and try to write the next great novel. Wish me luck. I’ll need it. I had trouble composing this little rambler-what with the black and white Boston TERROR barking nonstop and the cacophony of noise from the humans with whom I share this residence. Time for some snuff…
That’s the first I heard of Freeman and Gossage. I think I remember reading that Philip K. Dick used Dean Swift, which made a splash in the US in the late 60s but never got beyond subculture status. There are some more threads on this f you go digging in old threads from years back. Terry Pratchett’s Snuff only came out last year, and I’m not too familiar with it, but I do know that it was the most recent in his Ringworld series. The names he uses for snuffs are fictitious, but the names sound as if they could be from one of the older English companies. Clearly he has a good understanding of English snuff, and we presume he’s a snuff taker as well. I don’t remember what they are but again, look in the cellar and see some more threads on this. Actually when you get into lots of 18th and 19th century literature, snuff is pretty common: almost so common as to not be worth mentioning. I’m sure some names were real and some fictitious. All throughout snuffhouse you will find tidbits of snuff mentions in various books. It might be nice to have them all compiled in one list though.
Thanks Xander - very interesting. :-bd
Time for somebody to start writing about a snuff sniffin’ Private Eye! Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Richard Diamond, Barry Craig and all those super sluthes from the '40s and ‘50s were cigarette smokers – even Sgt. Joe Friday when he was on the radio! Maybe we can get detective Joe Gunther to hire a snuff sniffer for the Vermont Bureau of Investigation! Who’s gonna’ call Archer Mayor (the author of the Joe Gunther series?)
Has Crumbs of Comfort ever been mentioned in a novel? It might just be a brain tumor, but I am inclined to believe that I once read a book in which Crumbs of Comfort was mentioned on several occasions. Needless to say, I can’t, for the life of me, figure out in which book or story I may have read this. If I’m not simply imagining things, it may be in one of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories or in one of Piers Anthony’s “Xanth” volumes. Or perhaps it could have been mentioned in the “Bartimaeus” trilogy, as the author and the plot both inhabit the UK. I do know that the term “Crumbs of Comfort” is not exclusive to the name of a snuff. But have a feeling that the literature in question used the term to describe the snuff.
Had to dig a while to find this thread… I just found another one! Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain’s Zulu warrier sidekick (named Umslopogaas ) often offers a pinch of snuff to Allan – which he gladly accepts. Umslopogaas uses a spent brass cartrage as his snuffbox. We are usually told that Umslopogaas takes the snuffbox “from a slit in his ear where he always keeps it.” I assume that the Zulus on the African Veldt make their own snuff…
Thanks for the info @howdydave - I’ll look into it. :-B
Keep in mind that there is nothing extraordinary about this. The Allan Quartermain stories are Victorian literature.
Michael Crichton’s “Pirate Latitudes” is a novel, the last published Michael Crichton novel I believe, about a so-called “pirate” named Captain Charles Hunter and his efforts to steal Spanish gold in 1665 Jamaica in it’s capital Port Royal. The English governor of Jamaica uses snuff throughout the book and he describes the snuff use in various ways for example, using snuff to overcome the horrible smell of the streets of Port Royal and to “pique his appetite”. It is a great book and I highly recommend others to read it.
@howdydave did they make a movie from that book or a movie with a character named Allan Quatermain? I remember watching a movie that sounds a lot like that book.
After further research @Xander I discovered that Freeman & Gossage received a trademark for ‘Dean’s Own’ snuff 7/19/1966. Registration Number: 0811254 Perhaps at some point, Dean Swift was born out of this? The snuffs mentioned in “Do Androids…” trademarks and patents dated to around 1963 and 64, 65 etc if memory serves me correctly. Maybe, Dean Swift was a name brand owned by Freeman & Gossage? Ok, here we go: DEAN’S OWN SNUFF Owned by: FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. Serial Number: 72192701 MRS. SIDDONS’S NO. 3&4 (mentioned in DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP) SNUFF Owned by: FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. Serial Number: 72192702 BOSWELL’S BEST SNUFF Owned by: FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. Serial Number: 72192703 DR.JOHNSON (mentioned in DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP) SNUFF Owned by: FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. Serial Number: 72192704 SPECIFIC NO. 1 (mentioned in DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP) SNUFF Owned by: FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. Serial Number: 72192707 A bit more: DR.JOHNSON Goods/Services SNUFF Owner FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. 451 PACIFIC AVE. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Status This registration was not renewed and is considered to be expired. Filed 1964-05-05 Registered 1966-12-06 Serial No US72192704 I wish I could find some of these old tins - on ebay maybe? Then we could learn more about them. What became of them? etc. I will look into this more when time permits. I’d like to be able to get some of these older snuffs and try them. lol =)) Ok, this should clear things up: Logo: DEAN SWIFT Serial Number: 72192708 Status/Status Date: CANCELLED SECTION 18-TOTAL 12/27/2005 Filing Date: 05/05/1964 Registration Number: 0801214 Registration Date: 01/04/1966 Description of Goods/Services: SNUFF Owner(s): POOLE, WADE H. BOX 2009 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94126 FREEMAN & GOSSAGE, INC. 451 PACIFIC AVE. SAN FRANCISCO CA 
Thanks @md363. Will give that a look and see if it will be something I might enjoy reading.
I think Wilsons of Sharrow owns the trademark now. Presumably they bought it when the TM expired, since they had all the recipes and were making under contract previously. As to some of the brand names, yes search ebay, you may find some of them. There is a “Specific” though not a “Specific No. 1”. There is a “Dr. johnson.” The others may have been trademarked but never made into snuffs. I’ve not come across them, but I see things that surprise me fairly often, so they could be out there.
Ok, @Xander, thanks for the info. Perhaps it was always made in England? Made in England and tinned in San Francisco perhaps. I think I was wondering was it always called Dean Swift or did it begin as something else. I think I actually tried some Dean Swift many years ago but haven’t yet tried any on this recent adventure. Do they make a decent toast or an Sp type snuff similar to WoS Morlaix? Those along with Fichtennadel are my current faves but I want to try a few scented toasts and some menthols soon. I’ll get some Deans on my next order no doubt.
@md363 Are you thinking of ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’? Graphic novel by Alan Moore, filmed a couple of years ago.
Likely both made and tinned in Sheffield, England. Always. The pre-WOS resurrection versions that I have have a phone number, mailing address and Email address: Dean Swift Sales PO Box 1438 Santa Maria, CA 93456 805-925-0580 Ph 805-922-3966 Fx dssnuff@aol.com Some also have the address of a distributor: Arango Cigar Co., Northbrook, IL 60062, 800-222-4427 Ph, 847-480-1221 Fx. But I think this was the owner, looking to find interested parties in carrying his product, not the contracted maker. If you search our archives, you may find some more information. I once remember reading an article or blog about the artist that designed the logo and tin and shop shelf pack box that included a lot of photos. My own theory on Dean Swift was that an entrepreneur in the late 60s got the idea in his head that now that smoking was scientifically demonstrated to be harmful, there would be a mad rush back to snuff taking, so he probably contacted a snuff maker in England and worked with them on ideas for flavors while providing the design, names, and marketing himself (now that you have done some more research I think that entrepeneur was Wade H. Poole.) It caught on among some avant-garde types (like our friend Philip K. Dick and his followers) but never took off like he hoped. The name “Freeman & Gossage” may also have been his invention to give it a name that sounded better or gave more prestige than something like the “Pool Snuff Company.” Something along the lines of “Fribourg and Treyer.” Dean Swift snuff could be found in certain tobacco shops into the early '00s but when we at Snuffhouse finally pieced together part of the puzzle and found the source to be WoS (this was about 2008 or 2009) they said they hadn’t made any in 5 years, meaning everything since 2003 or 2004 we were buying from said shops was old stock. The brand was considered dead in the water about a year or two ago, when Wilsons decided they would revive it and distribute it themselves. The new ones feature a slightly different flavor range from the last years of the predecessor, and a slightly revised tin design. Also of note from the period when DS was “cool” was another entrepreneurial US brand called “Cökesnuff”. As far as I know they only made non tobacco snuffs and were trying to capitalize on the “coolness” of cocaine at the time. They may well have been among the first white snuffs (glucose based) out ever, but I’m not sure. The tins were also the same 5g round ones that DS, WoS and others use. A thorough search of Snuffhouse will bring you more info on these and possibly some photos as well, since we’ve had the odd thread about them. I’m pretty sure they were also made in England, and could probably be traced to our friends at the Sharrow Mills.
About the films. There’s King Solomon’s Mines and Alan Q and the Lost city of Gold, both from the 80’s, and both based on Haggard’s stories.
@Justin no I know that movie though, the one I was thinking of has a well known actor in it who is instantly recognizable by most and he lives in Africa and at the end he and his daughter’s husband played by the James Bond man Roger Moore go onto a Nazi ship on a river in Africa and rescue the daughter I think and blow up the Nazi ship. The main character, not Roger Moore, has a sidekick that is a native and I’m pretty sure he uses snuff out of a bullet shell or at least uses snuff.
All interesting comments. I agree @Xander, that sounds about right. I shall put down my magnifying glass, remove my deerstalker and stop trying to Sherlock all this. My pipe remains firmly in my grasp however, at least until my order arrives from Mr Snuff. Anyone have any Dean Swifts for trade? Check my list of “for trades” in the Bazaar. I shall go smoke my pipe now. I am currently listening to David Warner read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. No snuff in it but its still an excellent read, or listen for that matter.
Do they make a decent toast or an Sp type snuff similar to WoS Morlaix?
Sorry, @Grant, I saw this question and it registered but I got carried away in my other response I forgot this bit. I know of no Dean Swift toasts. They may have had one in their heyday, but I am not familiar with their past snuffs. They have two SPs, though neither is like WoS Morlaix, which I do not consider an SP anyway. The two are “S.P.” which has (oddly) a mild clove scent, and “Dean’s Own” which is a pretty basic more-or-less unscented SP similar to WoS SP2 or SS. The only two things in the world that I know of that are similar in scent to WoS Morlaix are Frederick Tranter “Finisterre” (which is the exact same thing only under a different label) and Fribourg and Treyer “Morlaix”, which I find worlds superior to the WoS one of the same name (perhaps they are not comparable at all). Its one of my top rated snuffs, and I keep it in bulk.
@Kpod – I have seen the term “crumbs of comfort” used by Jervis in the Dr. Thorndyke stories, but he wasn’t referring to snuff – just something that he said to a young lady.
@Xander Thanks for the above info. Very interesting and insightful. I have tried both Morlaix’s and I must admit that I enjoy the WoS Morlaix immensely. I was using the F&T Morlaix as an, get this, after-bath snuff. lol It gave me a fresh & clean powdery feeling. Now the WoS Morlaix is a “go to all day” snuff for me. I especially enjoy it interspersed between the many toasts I enjoy during the day. I’ll be glad when my Mr Snuff order arrives as I am out of toasts and WoS Morlaix. I found, over time, that the F&T tends to clog me a bit and can also be mildly cloying but the WoS Morlaix opens me up with a nice lemony citrus hit that I really can’t get enough of. Hopefully this next tin will be the same. I’d say my top snuffs thus far are the toasts, WoS Morlaix and Fichtennadel. Plenty of others to try though. In time.
@md363 This might be the droid you are looking for… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout\\_at\\_the\\_Devil\\_(film)
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@Justin Thats the movie I was thinking of! I didn’t even have to click on the link, I recognized the name immediately, for some reason when I have tried to remember the name I can’t ever remember it but thats definitely it. It’s a really great movie you should watch it if you haven’t already. It’s on Netflix sometimes. @Grant I think you posted in the wrong place with those last two. lol
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idiot! Thought I was posting on WHATS IN YOUR NOSE my last few posts - lmao =))
@Justin Thats the movie I was thinking of! I didn’t even have to click on the link, I recognized the name immediately, for some reason when I have tried to remember the name I can’t ever remember it but thats definitely it. It’s a really great movie you should watch it if you haven’t already. It’s on Netflix sometimes. @Grant I think you posted in the wrong place with those last two. lol
Just saw that. Busy doing other things. Forgot what page I was on. 8-}
I recently ran across a snuff sniffer in one of the “Father Brown” stories by G.K. Chesterton.
Dead Names: A Dark History Of The Necronomicon meantions briefly of one of the story tellers friends developed a nasal snuff habit in highschool and took it off the blade of his pocket knife. The snuff type was never mentioned but this is supposedly a true story set in the 60-80’s America. I have not read it in a few years though and have been meaning to get back to it. It is what really sparked the idea of nasal snuff usage in my brain.
“It was always I who emptied the packet into his black snuff-box for his hands trembled too much to allow him to do this without spilling half the snuff about the floor. Even as he raised his large trembling hand to his nose little clouds of smoke dribbled through his fingers over the front of his coat. It may have been these constant showers of snuff which gave his ancient priestly garments their green faded look for the red handkerchief, blackened, as it always was, with the snuff-stains of a week, with which he tried to brush away the fallen grains, was quite inefficacious” It’s James Joyce (the first story in “Dubliners” - don’t worry, it’s in the public domain) and the snuff in question is High Toast. I particularly admire the allusion to “little clouds of smoke”. Incidentally, it was only whilst I was typing the extract that I was struck by Joyce’s eccentric use and non-use of the comma. Ah well, therein lies the essential difference between the genius and the hack, I suppose.
I had been wondering if there was a thread like this here on Snuffhouse and I’m glad I found it. I’m a huge fan of Philip K. Dick and have been for many years before I found out about snuff. Going back and reading some of his books I’ve been delighted to find mentions of snuff that I never noticed before I started taking snuff. There are actually quite a few and my most recent read, Ubik, persuaded me to put Fribourg and Treyer Princes on an order. A great snuff and a great author!
Some of the stories written by Theodore Roscoe about adventures in the French Foreign Legion have a snuff sniffer or two. The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion (3 volumes) These stories appeared in pulp fiction magazines.
@howdydave did they make a movie from that book or a movie with a character named Allan Quatermain? I remember watching a movie that sounds a lot like that book.
To finally answer this question… The book that I referred to: Allan Quartermain, was the first in a series of adventure stories. The second book in the series: King Solomon’s Mines, was probably made into more movies than any of the other stories. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a mish-mosh that collected a bunch of big names from adventure stories (Dr. Jekyll, Captain Nemo, Dorien Gray et al) and made a story using all of them at once. Allen Quartermain was getting on in years when he was recruited as the group leader in this one… Sort of a turn of the century RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous.)
These come from PKD books. I’ve read a lot of snuff references in his stuff. from: Cadbury, The Beaver That Lacked. “The next day at work, alone with the half-gnawed poplar tree, he produced a small note-pad and short pencil, envelope and stamp which he had managed to smuggle out of the house without Hilda noticing. Seated on a slight rise of earth, snuffing meditatively small pinches of Bezoar Fine Grind, he wrote a short note, printed so as to be easily read. TO WHOMEVER READS THIS! My name is Bob Cadbury and I am a young, fairly healthy beaver with a broad background in political science and theology, although largely self-taught, and I would like to talk with you about God and The Purpose of Existence and other topics of like ilk. Or we could play chess. Cordially, And he thereupon signed his name. For a time he pondered, sniffed an extra large pinch of Bezoar Fine Grind, and then he added: P.S. Are you a girl? If you are I’ll bet you’re pretty. “ and from Ubik: “I stopped, rubbed my hands together for warmth in the cold Alpine air, and squinted into the Swiss sun. I took a small container of Prince Albert snuff from my jacket pocket. “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” we used to joke as children, when anybody remembered what a can was. This can had cost me 95 poscreds on the black market, and I was sure it wasn’t really Prince Albert. They had stopped making it years ago. I took a pinch of the high-grade snuff, replaced the container, and walked into the Beloved Brethren Moratorium.”
@Xander correct on Dean Swift. It used to be one of the only snuffs available in the Bay Area. The old line had a Dr. Johnson’s (peppermint), Mrs. Siddon’s Own, Bezoar Fine Grind, Inchkenneth, Cameleopard, and a few others I can’t recall. I visited with Wade Poole several times when I lived in the city and in Mill Valley. Great old guy and a true “toffee nose”. His hair and moustache were gray…except around his nose At that time he bought the snuff in bulk from Illingworth and packaged it in SF. It came in twist tap tins, 1/2 oz flip top hinged tins, 1 oz tubes and he even had some in cloth bags a la Bull Durham. His little place was in the hinterlands out near the wharf. I’m not sure when he switched to Wilsons, most likely when Illingworth burned down in the eighties. Dean Swift’s tag line was JOIN THE RUSH. He retired and sold the business to a woman in Santa Maria and the whole thing promptly went to hell. Drucquer & Sons in Berkeley sold some old stock for several years and also sold Dr. Rumney’s, Dunhill Snuff and a few others. Greg Pease worked there at the time, but didn’t know much about snuff other than the price http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/j/e/a/jea00c00/Sjea00c00.pdf http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19800707&id=4fEvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H\\_sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2613,2095862
every crowd scene in a book that I read has someone taking snuff if you look in the corner.
My wife likes to read historical romance novels–basically stories of romance in historically accurate settings. She says that many of the characters take snuff. I think it makes her more kindly disposed to my use of snuff.
Thanks for the articles @chefdaniel I’ll post them in the Library.
@xander, I remember the “cokesnuff” from the late 1960s being in head shops in Laguna Beach, CA. If I recall, I bought strawberry scented snuff, and it was tobacco for sure. They also carried Dean Swift, and as Chef Daniel mentioned, I remember the logo “join the rush”.
Didn’t Hercule Poirot use snuff in at least a couple of Agatha Christie’s _ early _ novels? In _ Cards on the Table _, we find Hercule interested in a snuffbox display. I think that in a couple of the Poirot stories (before his excentricities became set in stone) he partook. After his character became fully developed, a speck of snuff anywhere upon Poirot’s immaculate self would be unthinkable!
I’m fairly sure that in G.K. Chesterton’s _ Father Brown _ series, Father Brown’s assistant: reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau was a snuff sniffer.
As a kid, I remember a series of books, the Professor Brainstorm series, about a mad old half-baked inventor. He was always taking snuff. The books are probably banned now bbecause of their possible detrimental effect on children.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Inspector Javert. “The snuffbox lies full and untouched in the pocket of Javert’s greatcoat for nearly three months. There are days he almost forgets it is there – and then he will walk past a tobacconist, or turn a corner too quickly so that it raps against his thigh, or out of the corner of his eye see the familiar flash of silver in another man’s hand and find his own too empty.”
I am reading “The Memoirs of Casanova” and there Snuff is mentioned a couple of times so far, this time some “Negrillo tobacco from Habana”… these mentions are often accompanied by the descriptions about the features of the snuff boxes.
Found another one! Unce Abner Master of Mysteries by: Melville Davisson Post pub.: 1910 In: “An Act of God” “Randolph stopped beside him as he went out, took a pinch of snuff, and trumpeted in his big, many colored handkerchief.” Squire Randolph was the local judge/magistrate in the Uncle Abner stories. These take place somewhere around western Virginia, sometime between the end of the Civil War and 1900.
This is from one of my favorite books I read as a child, Pippi Longstocking. “She dug the empty bottle out of the sack. She also managed to find some paper and a pencil. Putting these on a stone in front of Tommy, she said, ‘You know more about the art of writing than I do.’ ‘But what shall I write?’ asked Tommy. ‘Let me think a moment.’ Pippi pondered. 'You can write this: “Help us before we perish-- we have been on this island for two days without snuff.” ‘Oh, but Pippi, we can’t write that!’ said Tommy reproachfully. ‘It isn’t true.’ ‘What isn’t true?’ ‘We can’t write “without snuff,”’ said Tommy. ‘Oh, we can’t?’ said Pippi. ‘Have you any snuff?’ ‘No,’ said Tommy. … ‘But we don’t use snuff. … If we write that people will think we use snuff,’ insisted Tommy. ‘Now look here, Tommy,’ said Pippi, ‘will you just answer this. Which people are more often without snuff-- the ones who use it or the ones who don’t?’ ‘The ones who don’t, of course,’ said Tommy. ‘Well, what are you fussing about, then?’ said Pippi. ‘Write it as I tell you.’ So Tommy wrote: ‘Help us before we perish-- we have been on this island for two days without snuff.’ Pippi took the paper, stuffed it into the bottle, put the stopper in, and threw the bottle into the water. ‘Now we should soon be rescued,’ she said.”
“A Pinch of Snuff” by Eric Taylor I am currently on a pulp fiction kick and this one was published in the June 1929 issue of Black Mask. Black Mask was a pulp fiction magazine published between 1920 and 1951. It specialized in hard-boiled detective stories.
Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers features a snuff sniffer…If I remember correctly it was Mr. Pickwick’s attorney
This is from one of my favorite books I read as a child, Pippi Longstocking. Let me think a moment.’ Pippi pondered. 'You can write this: “Help us before we perish-- we have been on this island for two days without snuff.”
Actually, in the original Swedish version they speak not of snuff, but of snus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBjWYaxLRg <– There’s the movie version of the dialogue, aptly named “Utan snus” (“Without snus”). Guess Lindgren’s books found an international audience before General and Ettan did ^^
Snuff is mentioned often in AC Doyles Sherlock Holmes. But so is lots of tobacco
In the opening lines of Tom Sharpe’s ‘the Great Pursuit’ the cunning literary agent Frensic is described thus: ‘When anyone asked Frensic why he took snuff he replied that it was because by rights he should have lived in the 18th century.’ The character continues to snuff his way throughout the novel, apparently favouring beareu.