Hello to you all, dear snuff fellows : Certainly, nasal snuff has no best moment in the last decades to back with all his power to our society. Laws against tobacco are applied with all rigor in our dear Western Civilisation. Some Countries consider smokers nearly as criminals. Tobacco smoke, inhale smoke is really a very bad thing; I think we all alike with this opinion…but sniff snuff tobacco is a completely different thing. Even a lot of Medical studies certify snuff is a help to less smoke. Then, I am sure this is a very good moment to recover the snuff tobacco, to consider snuff taking a “normal” and maybe healthy manner. But, we, average users have not enough power to show through the Media this opinions. And now I ask you all : WHERE ARE THE WESTERN TOBACCO COMPANIES? I think they are losing the best moment to recover the use of tobacco snuff. My best wishes to you all, Pedro
Maybe it will just take more time. As others look for ways to quit smoking and discover snuff. As this happens, maybe to companies will notice a rise in sales and put a little more effort into marketing.
This quote from the Smokeless New Zealand website say it best: “Cigarette companies do not promote snuff – it quells the urge for the next cigarette.” Do we really want these corporate psychopaths and their legions of amoral white coated lab monkeys perverting nasal snuff like they’ve done with other tobacco products? Just for the record; I don’t think that Big Tobacco is any more evil than Big Doc or Big Pharmaceutical, etc.
I alike completely with your comment. Maybe we must follow our lonely way keeping the purity of this old taking tobacco manner. Pedro
It’s a truism in the history of commerce that if a demand arises, someone will supply it. If the major tobacco companies can’t overcome their own addiction to the cigarette, so be it. They will simply fall by the wayside. New companies; or in the case of snuff, maybe some old ones will take their place. We’ve already seen some fairly aggressive marketing on this and other forums. This is fine when being done by honest people promoting honest products. I do think that both Namrata and Roderick belong in this category.
Good news Roderick!!! I would like to see your true snuffs at the Spanish Tobacconists. But here we have monopolistic laws about tobacco products and you can find only some Pöschl, Gawith Mentholated snuffs and…no more. Being Spain one of the former snuff manufacturers, if not the first one, here the snuffers are desapearing. We have no Spanish snuff brands…and we are tobacco producers!!! I think with peaplo as Roderick we may have a hope. Yours Pedro
“Snuff is definitely on the up”. Well said. 4 years later now: Is it true? Within all my friends, colleagues, family members I am still the only snuffer…
When I ask tobacconists in BC here they all say that people ask them for snuff all the time. The only reason nobody carries it is because no snuffs have the required health warnings and lists of toxic constituents.
I have bought McChrystals snuff here in Ontario Canada and it had health warnings and toxic contents in both english and french.
Really? Well, Ill have to ask them about that!
We are the Liberal party of the tobacco world: a lot in total but you never meet another.
In Germany snuffing is still a habit of only a few (“liberal”) people. Perhaps one reason is, that in Tobacco shops you can only purchase the over-mentholated stuffs. So if you do not buy your snuff via internet, you will never come to know the wonderful English snuffs here. When I take out my snuffbox and my spoon and enjoy a pinch of Wilsons Best SP or so, I am still the man who comes from the moon.
US, Boston here… VERY liberal, but unfortunetly my snuffing remains in the closet since Im in the business world. It would NOT go down well … no sireee… not a chance. (as I whip out a bullet).
To be quite honest, only my girlfriend and a few others know I take snuff on occasion. While I’m an adult who can make his own decisions I think if I told my dad he would look at me and say, “you really do that?” Snuff has become a thing viewed by many as dirty or unrefined; yet somehow a cigar or pipe implies a sort of sophistication…
@Brandasaur. I hear the same thing, but my MiL sent me a tin of McChrystals’s she bought in Edmonton, health warnings and all like @n9inchnails says. I would love to be able to buy snuff OTC, even if it was overpriced McChystal’s.
Today we will have a birthday party for my youngest dazughter with all our family here with us, round about 30 people. There will be a lot of smokers, but I willbe the only snufftaker. They all look at it as a little strange and excentric in some way. But I know: Snuff is the real enjoyment and pleasure and it’s healthier also.
@giaach I agree that the pipe is viewed as sophisticated but, from what I gather, cigar smokers are viewed as rather obnoxious to the average non-smoker. Cigars create a huge stink which a lot of people hate and it’s associated with the image of the “fat cat” businessman.
@Uwe fellow german, believe me when i say that i know what you mean. most people know what snuff is (thanks to Pöschel´s Gletscherprise and it´s rather long history on the german market) but only a few want to try. i dont give up on it anyway… not on my snuff consuption nor to give curious people deep answers about snuff and the benefit you gain when you quit the cigs and start to snuff.
Here in England, I get the impression that many people don’t even know what snuff is, or at least just think of it as a ‘thing of the past’. However, the tobacconist in town always has various kinds in stock, so there must a fairly decent customer base out there.
Dredging up an old thread****
I am pretty sure both in the UK and Germany the average person is much more exposed to snuff. In my life of 26 years I have lived in 4 states, 8 towns/cities, and I have witnessed two people smoking pipes, and no snuffers. I can’t even find anyone on here who has american snuffs sold locally aside from a few silver dollars. I’m looking for american scotches, and the idea of buying it from the UK whom bought it from America, only to ship it back to America seems insane.
However, if toque silver dollar is evidence of the taxation on snuff… then I may have to buy it from overseas.