You know, I hate to admit, I find myself sometimes worried what others think. Now I could write a whole page on this but ill save the forum my boring story and just say that the other day I said screw it. I find that I would try and remove myself from company to use snuff. I would disappear, snuff, and then wait for the run, blow, and return to civilization. Now, I find it makes for an interesting conversation piece. There are still times where I can not use, like at work, and I feel like an addict (shows garbage pail next to computer table full of brown stained kleenex, lol) but I am enjoying this so much. Now when I use I make sure I am in proper company, friends or certain family, and just enjoy like its something everyone does. When someone does object, or say, “Thats gross!” Or, “Is that drugs?” I simply explain, then listen to see if it is a negative response, which I promply debate accordingly, or if it is an intrigued response, I go on just enough to explain the history, briefly, and then continue with my day. Just wonder how everyone else handles their snuff usage in public, like at a bar or other gathering, and the responses you have gotten.

@Grim I used to worry what others would think too, but if you don’t make it an issue usually others don’t either. Sometimes I will introduce snuff to people who I am around frequently so they have all their questions answered up front and I can get on with it. I am sometimes teased but you just roll with it. Make them envy your snuff

@Grim The first few days I started using snuff I had the same concerns as you but as time wore on I really haven’t thought about it. In certain places I do use some discretion because it’s hard for me to snuff quietly and my usage is sometimes accompanied by a few snorts and an audible “ahhhhhh yeah”. I think it draws less attention than you would think. I had to remind myself that not everyone has their eyes on me at all times, I’m just not that important. I use snuff at work, in the grocery store, in front of family and friends. If I’m questioned I just tell the inquisitor what it is and that it’s a new way to quit smoking. Most times the subject is dropped and if the conversation is continued it generally leads to me sharing a pinch with a stranger. I learned eventually to not blow my nose which saves a lot of hassle. In order to do this you will want to stay away from snuffs that cause you to drip like toasts, menthols, or whatever gets your waters flowing. Save those snuffs for home use. If you’re worried about attracting attention try a bullet. I am one of those who loves bullets especially out in the world because it is so quick and easy, I don’t have to worry about dirty hands or wind, and they are stealthy. I guess I could say it really doesn’t matter what people think but that isn’t practical or realistic for everyone. As your technique gets better you will be able to drop a pinch before anyone can blink an eye so it won’t be an issue. Just remember taking a pinch in mixed company is far less offensive than lighting up a smoke or letting loose a smelly fart.

I recently had some one ask me if my bullet was a crack pipe… I just said “yeah, it is…” and they walked away.

@Scurvy I like your style. LMAO!!

I used to worry in the begining just because it was so awkward and messy when I first started. But I stopped worrying when I could take a pinch calmly, quickly, and with no mess.

I love the shock and awe when I break out the snuff box and do a big pinch. Some say noway, that can be legal. some ask, does it get you high? and the all familiar your nose will rot off from using snuff. That is gross you need your head examined. But I never worried what others think about anything and especially me! It is none of my business. I conform to my own making not what society finds normal. I am more of a Grizzly Adams then a Marilyn Manson .

I’m always interested to see how my friends respond when they first see me snuff- it’s a rather good way of determining who knows me well… those who really do aren’t surprised in the slightest to learn that I do something as ‘odd’ as snuff. Those who only know me as a very good acquaintance could not be more shocked. In public, I find that if I nonchalantly steal a pinch, no one really thinks anything of it. Compared to other things, like using an e cigarette indoors, it isn’t terribly conspicuous.

I dont snuff in front of people at work, I just find that tacky, like the guy who eats a snack in front of you at work, otherwise its not really an issue. At the bar we sing a song before we take a sniff and i always offer to those around me, many times it gets me a free drink or two, especially with the smokers who are probably sick of other people bumming smokes from them.

I had an acquaintance thru pool league see me snuff and asked if I would step outside and have a cigarette with him. I quit smoking but we never talked before so I was interested it what he had to say. Once we got outside he began to ask me if I would share my cocaine with him because he was out and was going to get more but his Guy wasn’t returning his phone call. He told me he would throw me some $ the next week during league. I couldn’t help but chuckle and told him what he seen me doing was tobacco snuff. The look on his face was priceless when he realized all the things he just said and he just turned around and went back inside.

Usually people ask what it is but the other day I took a pinch of dragun out of my snuffbox and the guy sitting next to me in class asked me if it was a snuffbox. I was impressed that he knew what I was doing. People ask if it gives you a buzz when they know what it is too. I tell em it is tobacco so it does unless you build a tolerance for it.

the more casual you snuff the less shady it looks. Running to the bathroom or hiding makes it look shady. If nervous over snuff to random people even if they don’t take it they’ll at least know what it is.

I went to my local Oktoberfest last weekend, and brought with me my favorite Bernard snuff bottle and beer stein. While waiting in like for sausages, I very openly poured a big pile of schmlazler on my hand a dove in. I deliberately avoided making eye contact to see if anyone approved or disapproved. No comments though. Later when we settled down to eat, I kept my bottle next to my beer and it raised a few questions, so I got a couple of people. One even tried it. Then awhile later, a younger fellow comes up and says “Dude, is that your snuff? That’s awesome! I haven’t seen one since my grandfather in Germany died.” I insisted he have some, and he seemed to enjoy it. He asked what kind it was too, but I’m not sure he understood with all the loud oom-pah music and ruckus going on. Fun time though.

I wonder whether this is an age thing; when I was younger I was very wary because at the end of the day you don’t want people to think you are some kind of oddball, now I’m 48 I don’t give a damn. The funny thing is that no one seems to care and I have give n pinches of snuff to dozens of interested folks. Makes me realise no-one was ever watching or caring. I don’t know if there is just some residual memory of snuff amongst the Brits. I notice a lot of US members mention the thing about it being mistaken for drugs, that’s something I’ve never encountered and most of my friends are cops.

It might partly be a drug thing, but I think there is something more to it. Even after explaining what snuff is and how good it is, I usually get looks like “you’re a friggin’ weirdo…” I’ve only had two people take pinches from me, both close friends. Everyone else, even if they smoke and chew, didn’t think twice about refusing.

It seems that no one seems to notice, but I live in San Francisco.

Snuff has paid for itself in my book. I take a snuffbox with me to the bar, people inevitably inquire, I let them try it and tell them a little history about snuff and how it helped me quit smoking and BOOM! I don’t have to buy beer for the rest of the night. If I want to be an ass I’ll hand them the tap box of D.White and watch them tear up when they snort it instead of sniffing it.

I think what Abraxas says about ‘residual memory’, or is it race memory, of snuff among the British. (Remember they still have a snuffbox in the Houses of Parliament and until relatively recently, an entire shop devoted to snuff in central London). I think more people in the UK than one thinks do vaguely know what it is. I’ve only just started using snuff again recently, and I live abroad so can’t comment, but 15 years or so ago in England when I used to take snuff I was surprised how often people would ask for a pinch. I remember even a clergyman I met socially taking some with gusto. I think it can be taken discretely anyway without arousing too much comment, although if it becomes sufficiently popular no doubt some junk science study will be concocted to prove that minute particles of snuff can float out of your nose into someone else’s and kill them…

@AustinAllegro - Those who engage in the act of Eskimo kissing (rubbing noses) are at an extremely high risk for second hand insufflation, you know…

The more you use snuff in public the more people who have seen it and the more likeily they are to know what it is. What I’am saying is it is your duty to snuffdom to snuff openily and proudily. It’s your duty to humanity to spread the good news that there is finaly a very good reason to have a nose.

Had a first kiss with a woman Ive just started going out with, she told a mutual friend that I smelled like Vic’s vapor rub but in a good way. My breath smelled of beer but my nose was minty clean!

Had a first kiss with a woman Ive just started going out with, she told a mutual friend that I smelled like Vic’s vapor rub but in a good way. My breath smelled of beer but my nose was minty clean!

Yeah my girlfriend has on many occasions asked me what snuff I had been useing because she likes the way I smell. Only snuff that has not worked that way for her is one six photo snuff that hours after useing it will smell like patchuli (a.k.a. the how did this become a popular perfume scent?)

@bob as usual you are making too much sense. But yes, in public lately I snuff openly to show what we are about. I don’t make eye contact with anyone, but I still try to see if they notice. I bet most don’t though. I’m old enough and proud enough not to care what anyone thinks of me (they should be more worried about what I think of them) so that’s no issue. Still, very few inquiries to what I am doing, I could count them on one thumb.

@Xander you’re right few people notice. Which is a good lesson for everyone, no one’s even paying that much attention to you.

my brother says " no one does that and you do it everywhere what are you going to do when someone calls the police" and I sai " well let them call the police there Nancy-Boy and I will tell them it is tobacco and they will send me on my way" he is a sergent in the Marines and I like to tell him he forgot to bring his knee pads and call him a nancy-boy not because he is in the Marines but because of his ignorance… best thing was me trying to tell them it is not all the dangerous and all that and he grabs the Dragun bottle and reads the warning sticker… typical ignorance of not realizing that maybe that warning is required by government in which he works for LMFAO and no one ever says or looks at me weird even with my APV (e-cig) most people do not even notice or say anything , some may take a double take but that is rare ,weird. an old boss used to tell me vapor and smoke = same thing… douche

Cros and Bob, my wife has also remarked that since I’ve started taking snuff there’s ‘a really nice smell of something in the room’. I think most people find the smell of snuff pleasant actually. In the same way that many people like the smell of pipe tobacco. It helps that I’m clumsy and tend to spill the snuff all over the place, giving a kind of ‘shake and vac’ effect to the carpet…

I don´t hide my snuffing nor expose it…I just do what I want…

To add another thought— I’ve got this buddy whom I’ve previously given a pinch of snuff and at that time gave him a little lecture about various types and flavors and methods of taking etc… The other night, I was packing a bowl in my pipe to step outside for a break. This same guy starts to ask me about pipe smoking and how it compared (or rather, doesn’t compare) to smoking cigarettes. I explained to him that there were many different types of tobacco and that it would really depend on his personal taste. He then asked me if I “use any kind of tobacco that isn’t complicated?” This got me wondering if people just generally see cigarettes as being the simple standard and all other forms of tobacco are just a waste of time or too complicated to even consider?

Scurvy, I’ve long decided that most cigarette smokers aren’t really interested in tobacco, just cigarettes and nicotine. Most UK smokers would consider anything other than a machine made mass market brand cigarette (or perhaps a rollie if you’re poor or in prison) to be weird or affected. Witness how many smokers rolled over and accepted the smoking ban, because they thought it would help them give up! They’re not in it for the enjoyment of tobacco, any more than an alcoholic is in it for the enjoyment of fine wines…

This got me wondering if people just generally see cigarettes as being the simple standard and all other forms of tobacco are just a waste of time or too complicated to even consider?

That was my problem when I was on cigs. I started my smoking “career” with reasonably decent cigars but they just took too long to smoke so I went backwards onto cigs. The stupid thing was that having started with cigars I didn’t inhale cigs - it was just the quick nicotine fix. When I first started on them there were real tobacco cigs from companies such as F&T, Sobaranie, Sullivan Powells, etc and they all tasted decent and different. But they all disappeared and I ended up smoking cigs that were theoretically decent such as Dunhill and Rothmans International but actually all tasted rubbish. Through a combination of that and a severe does of flu I managed to get off cigs years ago before the ban in the UK. Since then it has been cigars, then pipes and now a return to snuff. I am hoping that between the pipes and the snuff I will eventually drop the cigars with the exception of the occasional social smoke. The range of aromas and flavours in pipe tobaccos and snuff makes me realise what a fool I was to spend years smoking cigs after all the decent brands disappeared.

@Supervape was a Navy Corpsman for 7 years, many of them with Marines, never once did I ever get the notion that any of them gave a damn about safety, times must have changed!

@Cros I think he is just busting my balls but I did hear him whiper to my mom “Don’t argue with him he does not know what he is talking about” in which i replied “I have OCD when in hell have I not researched the shit out of everything I do” mom said thats true but the Bro still thought I was nuts as he drink himself into a damn near coma that night by drinking an entire 5th of jack… snuff is definatly more safe than alcohol lol

I’ve never thought twice about using snuff in bars and public places, and the only time I’ve ever been questioned was in a bar in Brussels and the guy was curious to know if it was heroin (which frankly baffled me). He ended up trying a pinch or two of Irish High Toast and quite enjoyed it. It possibly helps that I spent a lot of my youth in Yorkshire, and grew up watching miners shovel little blue boxes of snuff up their noses on the way to work, but it’s never even occurred to me that I should be ashamed or circumspect in my snuff usage.

@Supervape I wish I knew why I love all Jarheads out there! Please thank him for his service and remind him that his bloodstripes were Navy Issued!

All my co-workers and the majority of my friends know that I snuff, the only place I ever worry about “hiding” it is when I’m on campus (state school, tobacco free and all that nonsense). But otherwise I snuff when and where I want to. Sometimes people ask what it is, and I have to explain it to them, and then they just nod and smile. The one time I had a problem with it was when I got pulled over for speeding and the officer saw my bullet full of dholakia white on my dashboard. Even though I explained that it was simply tobacco, he confiscated it and searched my van.

Chris - you’re right about the decent cigs. As a matter of fact, I think one of the main reasons for the popularity of public smoking bans was because of the decline in quality of cigarette tobacco. Pre 1990s, second hand smoke didn’t seem to smell that bad, as there were good quality cigarettes and pipe tobacco being smoked. Around the mid nineties, cigarettes just started to smell vile, I think that was when lots more additives started being used - and they really started to stink. I’m just looking forward to seeing how the antis react if snuff becomes more popular…

@AustinAllegro I’m sure the antis will come up with something - a lack of evidence has never stopped them in the past. Snuff packaging already has health warnings even though from all that I’ve read there is no evidence that anyone has ever suffered any harm from using nasal snuff. With the famous exception of the person who put snuff in his ear for 40 years! [-X From a purely selfish point of view I hope snuff taking does not become too popular. If it does then you can guarantee that the politicians will start heavily taxing it.

I’m sure I read somewhere that the lack of duty on snuff was deliberate, because HMG wanted to encourage smokers to change to snuff. I really can’t think our leaders would be that sensible…I think they just haven’t bothered because as you say, it’s not popular enough to justify the expense required to tax it. Still, it only takes one shrill, careerist politician to start ‘asking questions in the house about a dangerous new trend’ etc etc and bingo, £5 a tin!

That is apparently correct as the medical experts confirmed that it was a good form of nicotine replacement to get people off cigs and that there was no evidence that it caused any harm. So it would two faced of politicians to start taxing snuff but then they are all two faced.

@SnuffinClown got pulled over for barely going over the speed limit last week, the very young cop asked me if i was using cough drops because of the heavy menthol smell that was evidently oozing from my pickup, I said no, its just nasal tobacco and gave him my tin, he replied “strange, what will they come up with next?” sent me on my way with just a warning.

@Scurvy, could there be a more simple way to use tobacco than snuff? Pinch, snort n done. Was standing on a busy street corner today and just pulled out my tin, took a couple deep snorts and thought ‘Isn’t life grand!’ Who really cares what the others think. But I think it probably does us all a service to use our habit of choice with respect and what the heck, with a bit of charisma as well!!!

People don’t react to my use of snuff anymore… Only to residue snuff left on my nose afterwards.

My Doctor (US of A) was glad when I told him I was using nasal snuff instead of cigs. " that is good. Doesn’t cause cancer"

I like to string people along. Especally if they’re really drunk or are morons. A recent exchange at a friend’s barbecue: “What is that, drugs?” “Yes.” “What is it?” “Its a crushed up plant, sometimes they put some scents or chemicals it it. You’ve never heard of it.” “It’s legal?” “Yeah. They haven’t made it illegal yet.” “Like bat salts?” “Much milder stimulant than that. You usually don’t feel like attacking people or cooking your dog. Anything’s possible, though.” “Damn, son! Can I have some?” “No. I give some to you and you start doing it, then your friends are doing it, then the bastards in Albany make it illegal 'cuz some dumbass gets caught with it in a high school.” “C’mon man, please? Hook a brotha up.” “Cool it with that ‘brotha’ crap, you’re whiter than my mom. Give me a beer. We’ll make a trade.” “Alright. What’s it called?” “Snuff.” “Like the tobacco?” “Like, ‘to kill’.” “Cool. Where do you get it?” “Can’t get it around here. I have to order it from a guy overseas in Europe somewhere. I deal with him on the internet.” Meanwhile, my friend is standing about six feet from this chooch, laughing his a-double off. I was gonna let the kid in on the joke eventually, but I got distracted by beer. I wonder if he ever found out…

beeeerrr…

I normally use snuff wherever i am. Here in Germany, you dont get the “Is this a drug?”-look. I guess it is because many people “know” what snuff is. A form of fine ground tobacco that goes into the nose. That is it. No reason to make a fuzz out of it.

I had share my snuff many times, But I never seen anyone whip out a snuff box or bullet. Heck I only seen one person smoking tobacco in a pipe in the past 5 years or so. I come to snuffhouse.org to be with kindred souls.

Had the worse day ever in my short snuffin life… I live in Iowa and around here snuff is harder then gold to find, anyways i carry my snuff in a small glass bottle, an empty anbersol one, i stopped to take a snuff off the back of my hand and next thinh i know i hear the horrid sound of cop sirens. This dip shit cop thought i was snorting heroin off my hand, long story short i got cuffed spent 2hrs in a holding cell and lost my snuff…bastards wouldnt give it back even after it tested negative for narcotics. X(

Jeez!

Had the worse day ever in my short snuffin life… I live in Iowa and around here snuff is harder then gold to find, anyways i carry my snuff in a small glass bottle, an empty anbersol one, i stopped to take a snuff off the back of my hand and next thinh i know i hear the horrid sound of cop sirens. This dip shit cop thought i was snorting heroin off my hand, long story short i got cuffed spent 2hrs in a holding cell and lost my snuff…bastards wouldnt give it back even after it tested negative for narcotics. X(

Sorry to hear it man. You should think about filing a complaint.

Can u even snort heroin? I always asummed that shit went in via viens…i mean w.e garrett does look alot like the heroin i seen on this drugs inc show, but come on, just dip shit, cusion bangin redneck ignorance, @DocCherry i would but in my small 2600 pop. town it would just put a big ass target on my back for the rest of these shit-kickin hick cops to aim at…

Interesting is that the drunk not hide. Stinks, pee and vomit in the street, lying in the gutter. With snuff it does not happen to you.

Yes you can snort heroin. You get just as addicted that way in the end. Sorry for your experience.

@Roderick tht sounds way worse then what happened to me, i mean being mistaken for a dope head sucked but that sounds way shity, and as for sharing my snuff with pigs, hell no. Ppl in iowa are idiots, while i was callin all the tobacco shops round here lookin for dry snuff, had a few of em tell me ’ we use to carry it yrs back, but all them ppl that put that shit up the nose died from it’

@slide you’re right. And despite what people think often times very small towns will have large herion problems (not always, but…) for instance in the area I live it’s some of the smaller towns that have that problem. And just for the sake of public health although what silde said being true it does take longer to become addicted that way.

In lil town iowa everyone does meth, its a real problem out here, they even refer to the area i live in as methland, they say in a 1block radius you find 3-4 labs… sounds like bs but ive seen 2 lab raids happen since i moved back here and its only been 2 1/2 mo…but on the mistaken snuff thing, my girl friend says i should just carry the whole W.E can round, its not huge or anything just kinda annoying, or get a bullet, i laughed at the bullet idea, thatd be real dumb idea out here

yes having packaging should help. Meth isn’t that the drug invented by a mad sciencetist who was looking for a way to make crackheads seem more calm and reasonable? Or is that just a rumor?

Heroin can be snorted though most junkies would see it as a waste. Complaints in small towns don’t work very well. Instead maybe you could go meet with the chief of police and take a couple of tins in and explain. Have a laugh with the guy, I’m sure they’re not terrible people, just perhaps have some stupid employees. (Imagine that). Then snuff in front of the cops and smile at them.

@bob i think hitler was the first person, or his mad scientist, to make meth, it was so his troops would stay awake for days on end and not feels the efx of sleep dep. Thats what i picked up from the history/natgeo channels atleast.

Ahh, the Japanese invented meth: 1893 by chemist Nagayoshi Nagai.

yes DocCherry is right. No the third Reich made methadone because for some reason people were not selling them the precursors to morphine. Though like many militaries the nazis did use amphetamines which well meth is a type of amphetamine it’s not quite the same.

Can u even snort heroin?

Oh yeah, it’s actually becoming a much bigger problem around my area and other small towns in Jersey and it’s mainly because you don’t have to IV it. Anyway, I just started snuffing so I can’t say how I go about it yet really. I tell people it’s my new thing, because it’s a much safer alternative to smoking and almost all of my friends smoke cigarettes, but they all think it’s weird as hell, except my brother who wants to stop smoking as bad as I do. I would imagine that the cops around here (notorious for being d-bags) would give me shit for it as well. Sorry to hear about that, I was actually thinking about this sort of situation the other day.

Can u even snort heroin? I always asummed that shit went in via viens…i mean w.e garrett does look alot like the heroin i seen on this drugs inc show, but come on, just dip shit, cusion bangin redneck ignorance, @DocCherry i would but in my small 2600 pop. town it would just put a big ass target on my back for the rest of these shit-kickin hick cops to aim at…

…Just for comparison…Last week my friend had an accident…nothing serious but she called me to come…I drove there to support her and give her a helping hand…2 cops came to investigate…So I was standing there for almost one hour…time enough for about 10 pinches…One of the cops asked me : “What are you snuffing?”…" Try…" was my answer and I offered him a tin…He took a pinch, sniffed and said : “That´s good, buddy…good to clean my nose”…God bless McChrystals O.G…

Meth and crack have been a problem here for a very long time, like most areas. Heroin use is going up quickly here. The cops I know say it is quickly becoming their biggest problem. It’s long been a problem in Dallas, 3 hours to the west. Snorting was how it was introduced to the rich kids…

Had the worse day ever in my short snuffin life… I live in Iowa and around here snuff is harder then gold to find, anyways i carry my snuff in a small glass bottle, an empty anbersol one, i stopped to take a snuff off the back of my hand and next thinh i know i hear the horrid sound of cop sirens. This dip shit cop thought i was snorting heroin off my hand, long story short i got cuffed spent 2hrs in a holding cell and lost my snuff…bastards wouldnt give it back even after it tested negative for narcotics. X(

Your horrible story is the typical example how fragile the word FREEDOM can be…don´t lose your courage and stay snuffin´ :)>-

I had a similar run in a while back. Long story short I explained to the cop about how Bruton n all those around here were originally intended to be used the way I was using the snuff I had. He thought I was idiot saying that he had never heard of such and everyone he knew who stilled used those dipped it. Whatever, god I hate ignorant people.

I just looked it up on Google images and it really does look like Brutons. Damn.

I was collared by a bouncer at a pub some weeks back for snuffing. I tried to explain to him what it was, but it was only when his colleague chimed in (he took a toot and said ‘that’s fine, mate’) that he let me go back in. I guess the association of sniffing is so strongly with illegal drugs that some people immediately jump to conclusions. The irony of course was that when I went to the toilet later that night, someone took a hit of coke right next to me at the urinals.

Maybe our generation of snuffers will be known as the heroes and trailblazers of the modern snuff movement fighting the assumptions and ignorance of the typical-minded.

Come to Switzerland … most policemen use snuff, its the thing for army, police and security people.

@Ludwig_1954 thankyou, i will be arriving shortly, have my room ready.

Come to Switzerland … most policemen use snuff, its the thing for army, police and security people.

Wait us at airport, please…with the banner “Welcome to Switzerland, ALL Snuffhouse members”…

Several years ago, I spent a week in Switzerland. It’s incredibly beautiful. I was amazed as soon as I got off the airplane; ashtrays in the bathroom stalls. Fantastic. :-bd

How’s the smoking situation in Switzerland these days? I heard quite a while ago that there are many places where it’s banned in public.

Smoking in Switzerland: Smoking laws in Switzerland are cantonal, meaning that there are 26 different regulations. As a rule, smoking is prohibited in restaurants, bars, public offices etc. Most businesses restrict smoking at your workspace inside, provided that you do not have your own office. Smoking is also prohibited in underground railway stations etc. But… some cantons allow pubs, bars, restaurants etc. to run so called “Fumoirs”, smoking parlours. Others provide heated smoking facilities outside. Airports have smokers corners. The Swiss people voted against more restrictive and nationalised smoking laws just a few months ago - against the heavy lobbying of the “nannies lobby” and the EU. Tobacco is heavily taxed, but the money is used to finance the swiss retirement system, to whom everybody is entitled (cynics note, that tobacco users pay twice. First on the tobacco and second by dying earlier and thus using less retirement allowance …). Some oddities are, that snuff is freely available, Dip or american snuff is too but swedish snus is prohibited for selling. You may however own and use it. All in all rather chaotic, not really seriously enforced but getting more and more restrictive due to the currying favour if not brown-nosing by our servile government towards the EU (what I would call “anal snuffing”).

Thank’s for the info! I’ve heard you guys have some liberal laws about “incenses” we can’t buy in this part of the world- or has that changed since (the 90’s)? I only mention that because it’s (imo)an interesting way to regulate/label it. As far as smoking tobacco in public, in the US it’s a matter of state law (and city law/ordinance). In Minnesota the only public businesses one can smoke inside are tobacco shops. Some bars and restaurants have outdoor smoking areas, sometimes heated shelters in the colder months. I think smoking is banned in our parks too. If anyone else feels like spreading some more enlightenment I’m curious about the laws in other areas too. Stay tobacco’ed my friends…

smoking is prohibited at the beach in my town, the beach, out there with seagulls and dead fish and seaweed…

Here in Iowa smoking is banned in almost all in door public areas, we dont have 25ft rule yet like in Washington, ‘no smoking within 25ft of a public area or entrence’ ,which pretty much makes smoking out side ya own house a crime out there. :-L About 10yrs ago in Iowa you could walk thru the super market and puff on cigs, there was them giant butt cans at the end of each isle, which i personally found disgusting. Nothing like shoppin fir produce and seeing ash all over the vegies /

That would seem odd in a grocery store! Might be nice in a liquor store though, puffin’ on a cigar or pipe while browsing for quality libations…

Back in the late 60s I worked in a hospital in Boston and everyone smoked, the entire building was filled with smoke, ashtrays everywhere. It wasn’t all that pleasant and people with breathing problems had no refuge. Some smoking bans are a good idea.

Yes, I remember those all smoking days back in 60’/70’s and it was simply disgusting, especially in public transport.

Heroin comes in a few colors and anything that is powdered can be snorted… the main thing is if anyone snorted the amount of H as we do snuff they would be dead as snuff is done in much larger amounts than the other

Close friends of my own age are used to it and I just snuff freely around them, but anybody else will think it’s a nasty habit so I keep it on the down-low. I snuff while hiking but in public I just go without. I don’t snuff at work because I’m a waiter and I can’t be seen with brown crap running out of my nose.

Litter is the worst visual problem with tobacco whether it is snus pouches or cigarette butts. Using snuff reduces the amount of trash on the streets. Just another benefit of using snuff!

I think Government has done a great job at making cigarettes the “Demon” of tobacco but at the same time created a thought that all tobacco is the same. When I do snuff, I just do it and don’t even think about what other think unless they ask and boy some people can ask “Dumb” questions like when they see the word “Scotch”… “Are you getting drunk for that stuff?” I laugh as I explain things and have found that most do not really care what you do unless they are paranoid that it is a illegal substance. @dvsfaust You can and folks do snort heroin, they say the effects are not quite as intense which is why the put it in the vein. I remember years ago in the city, co-workers used to run off to a corner to do a line with friends

One of the great things I’ve found about getting older (I’m 43) is I just don’t give a damn what people think. I snuff anywhere, anytime around anyone. I get lots of different reactions, mostly curiosity, mostly positive and a few who clearly think I’m doing something nefarious. Sod the ones who think that. Nobody is going to stop me enjoying this wonderful hobby.

Isn’t the wisdom that is aqquired by age wonderful @SnuffySnuff great post

Thank you

Come to Switzerland … most policemen use snuff, its the thing for army, police and security people.

Didn’t know that. So that’s why I mostly get positive reactions. It does feel here (Zurich) that more often than not people know what I’m doing.

I don’t care what people think… If they have at least a hint of intelligence, they will ask questions – which I will gladly answer. If they don’t – keep ‘em guessin’!

I’ve avoided so many fights in clubs and such in Mongolia just by having my snuff with me. When my friends are trying to hit on local women (we’re volunteers from America) the men don’t take to us lightly. Things never escalate, but they always give us nasty looks and sometimes even start yelling at us (a friend of mine got spat on once). Anyway, nothing breaks the ice or eases tension better like taking out my snuffbox and offering everyone at a table a pinch. We instantly go from the most hated people in the club to the most popular. Gotta love Mongolian snuff culture. Although, I’m going back to the States this summer and am worried what my family and friends will think, but my Mongolian fiancee doesn’t mind at all and even snuffs with me (she likes the Indian stuff the best). I figure, as long as she doesn’t have a problem, I’m good.

Matt you’re wrong about why people shoot up smack. It’s cause it’s faster not stronger or more intense. Faster. Think about that for a second.

@bob thankfully I have never had the desire to try it out. I would watch them snort it, then fumble around like fools. They would then get hungry followed by being sick & start the process over

I like the amazing ability to sleep in impossible postions it creates in users. Like when you see some guy in a postion and think he must be dead no one can sleep like that, then he wipes his nose and goes back to sleep probably a junkie…

@bob You make me laugh

last year on a school trip I saw a junkie get pooped on by a pigeon. It was in manhattan. It was really funny. It pooped on the side of his head.

@SupremeCOJP You can just say that its a bit of Mongolia that rubbed off on you and you took to it. That’s actually much easier to say than, “Oh, I just decided to start out of the blue!”

Just ran into an old woman (my age) outside of class today… Took out my wooden snuffbox and she knew straightaway what I was doing. She grew up in a coal mining town. Even knew about the benefits of snuff as a decongestant!

Good evening @supremeCOJP, sain bainuu I hope you are enjoying your stay in Mongolia. A great country, with great people. Have you found your personal snuff bottle yet (horug)? And do you offer your snuff in the Mongolian Fashion? Ah, I envy you for being there … . On my visits, I always bring a lot of snuff along, usually in tins and in different sizes and flavours. These prove to be very popular introductory presents when dopping in on families in the country. Please forgive me for leaving now, all the memories are coming back … Patrick B. Ludwig

@Ludwig_1954 Whoa, it’s weird to see someone else who’s been here, even though it always ranks high in places to see and visit every year by certain publications. Glad to know that there’s someone else here that understands the certain charm Mongolia possesses. There are so many good things I want to say about this country, but I will never be able to expresses them fully. But I can always show them this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS8r4r3vPs I bought my own snuff bottle after Tsagaan Sar last year and have the one that was given to me as well. I do offer snuff in the traditional sense when I have my bottle on hand, but when I have my normal box, I just invite people to take a pinch. I’m interested in where you stayed and for how long. You live in a ger?

Snuffhouse field trip?

I keep it to myself. Well over half the world is anti tobacco, and snuff, even amongst smokers is not always understood. i have litle time for the sanctimonious antl tobacco asshole brigade who dont smoke but do just aout every other thing wrong. No, its my secret and its staying  that way…

After reading through your past and present experiences of people questioning our ‘pass time’, and hearing of the some what negative comments on it. I have come to the happy conclusion, that being an ‘aged’ snuff taker is a damn fine thing…I just tell most of these self opinionated normally middle-aged people who I come into contact with (mostly as I’m walking around the local market) to go “Stvff themselves” and they just put it down to me being a grumpy old codger and walk on mumbling to themselves…But on the other hand I do also find that a lot more young people are genuinely interested in at least hearing about, if not trying snuff these days, and to those I offer a pinch…Alas not during our ‘lock down’ periods, as I have to ‘isolate’ so I’m told.

Here in Bavaria snuffing is no problem at all. At least nobody calls the police. Just kidding.

Mostly older men are using snuff. but the number of young(er) snuffers is rising due to smoking bans. Poschl and Bernard are just around the corner. So we have a big assortement in every tobacco store, gas station and Gletscherprise and Gawith Original are also sold in every supermarket.

Recently I met a neighbour of mine, almost about 75 - 80 years old and uses Gletscherprise as long as I can think about him. We were talking a little and ranting like Bavrians used to do. I offered him a pinch of my SG Irish D. But I warned him of its dryness and fine grind. He just laughed, after that schmalzlerlike pinch he coughed heavily and ranted much more about this dry stuff I gave him.

Well… here are no negative situations or even restrictions for being a snuff taking person.