I’ll have to try it the next time I get a bite! Maybe I can put my WoS French Carrotte to some good use after all.
I just tried some on my bite and it worked! Swelling is gone and every thing! Snuff never fails to amaze me!
Instant coffee is the main type drunk in the UK. I was, of course, joking!
A cup of coffee made from snuff? Whoever you serve it to must have really wronged you to deserve that. Great idea for a practical joke though~
@itsuke I seem to recall reading that a great thinker was done in by someone or other dumping rappee into his wine as a joke. Nicotine can kill, and, in his case, it did. (French fellow he was, if memory serves.)
Guanxi88, at frist I read rabies instead of rappee. So I was thinking can anyone really get rabies like that. 
silly me!
Yes, it would be a potentially fatal practical joke and I hasten to remind that my comment was not a serious suggestion (nor for that matter was cooking with snuff) so please don’t do it. The nazi war criminal Albert Speer carried a crushed up cigar in his jacket pocket at Nuremburg as means to commit suicide; his intention being to steep the leaves all night in a cup of water in his cell.
Not necessarily snuff, but tobacco in general. This is something I’ve posted before. Of course its a household necessity, you can use it to scrub your sink or counters clean. You can kill insects with it. Makes a good foot powder, absorbs spills in your carpet, kills mildew growth in shower. Keeps your pets happy by killing fleas & lice, kills bed bugs, dissolves ear wax buildup, keep a can open in the fridge to keep food fresh. Mix 50/50 with ground coffee for a great steak rub for the bbq. Mix with lamp oil and burn for a great aromatherapy. Add water to make a great soft metal polish. Keeps moths out of the closet. Kills parasites/worms in donkey’s, mules, horses, etc. Keeps you from yelling at your loved ones. Tobacco had long been used by the indians for its medical qualities. Its even in a California mountains survival guide handbook I have. There is a wild tobacco that grows in California and along west coast called ‘coyote tobacco’. I actually have a bunch of this growing in my garden this year. Along with other tobacco’s. Here are some other uses for tobacco: The various species of Wild Tobacco are mainly used externally as an analgesic poultice and in liniments and salves for its analgesic qualities on sore muscles and joints, sunburns, or any external pain. Add a strong infusion of the leaves to bath water to relieve the pains of hemmorrhoids, menstrual cramps, muscle bruises or muscles sore from over use. Tobacco neutralizes skin reactions to bites and stings, stopping the swelling, burning and itching. Fresh leaves can be crushed and applied to insect bites and stings, dried leaves should be moistened before applying. Even processed commercial tobacco (N. tabacum) can be used on insect bites and bee stings, so if no tobacco plants are nearby, look for a cigarette butt and moisten the tobacco in it to apply as a poultice. A liniment for sore joints and muscles can be made by steeping one cup of dried wild tobacco leaves and one tablespoon of cayenne pepper powder in a quart of alcohol for at least two weeks. An olive oil base may also be used if the alcohol liniment is too drying to the skin. Tobacco is also useful as an insecticide: steep one cup of dried, crumbled leaves in a quart of boiling water for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and add one tablespoon of liquid detergent; cool to room temperature. Strain and spray onto plants. Do not use commercial pipe, cigar or cigarette tobacco as an insecticide on plants in the Solanaceae family, such as peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, as it often contains the mosaic virus which will infects plants of this family.
wow, I am amazed by the many wonderful uses of tobacco. I wonder is it possible to spray some snuff over my cat to prevent fleas and ticks?
I just remembered this after looking at the thread again. Read in National Geographic aeons ago about fresh Tobacco leaves being used in South America to treat Piranha bites. I kid you not.
Snuffster: “The nazi war criminal Albert Speer carried a crushed up cigar in his jacket pocket at Nuremburg as means to commit suicide; his intention being to steep the leaves all night in a cup of water in his cell.” Would this work? And what would be a fatal dose of snuff? Is this where we get the phrase ‘to snuff it’?
Kills slugs pretty well too.
Mr_Snuffypants, the north american indians, especially CA indians used a tobacco poultice to treat rattlesnake bites after sucking the poison out.
@Troutstroker No doubt it worked wonders. There are Rattlesnakes galore out there, especially in the Mojave. @Gonzo I think the origins of that term relate to the snuffing out of a candle, but I could be wrong.
Snufficide is difficult due to the vomiting that takes place. I have found the Wilson’s snuff useful for whitening the labels on their tins.