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
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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?
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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.