At my local Pipe and Cigar shop the owner said he used to sell a fair amount of Wilson’s. Mainly to offshore workers as smoking was restricted to certain areas. Now he has a couple Silver Dollar snuffs and is checking to see what others may be available to him.
Locally I can get a limited selection of Scotch’s. Makes me very grateful for Mr Snuff and Toque. Personally, given the choice of an American Scotch or a British Toast…I would choose the Toast. But I do like WE Garrett and Tube Rose…
I think if the British manufacturers would get their products back in the shops there could be interest. I would target the cities that have banned all smoking in public places first.
They sell Sturco by McChrystals at my local newsagents in Brighton in the UK, they had a pack of 20 hanging up next to the cigarettes, I bought one when the pack of 20 was full and next time I went in they had 3 left. In fact that’s how I got into snuff. They sell other snuffs at the tobacco shop in town, though they just keep in stock whatever snuffstore.co.uk has in their top 10 list which is mostly menthols.
Snuff is certainly popular here in the Deep South, but not so much with the young crowd (myself). Within two weeks I saw the supply at the grocery store near my college go from having around six different Scotches (roughly 40 1.15oz tins) to having only three left.
I’m with oscar wabbit on this one although I would like it to be common enough where people are more accepting of it. Though nowadays some people just don’t accept tobacco period.
If snuff caught on and became THE THING, can you imagine how many choices we would have? It blows my mind that I have several hundred choices of snuff to partake of and it’s pretty unknown with the general public.