“This Tobacco Product Can Damage Your Health And Is Addictive” Well thank God it’s Addictive! I’d hate to think I’m shuvin’ something up my nose that ain’t addictive! I’m FrigginSantaClaus!

I would like to see a snuff where the only label on the tin is solid black with a skull and crossbones on it and says “Warning: This shit will kill you”… I would buy that in bulk.

The best are the warnings on 6 photos that say causes cancer and have a scorpion

The real warning label that should be on the cans is “WARNING this product will make you spend half of every other paycheck on more snuff”

Hey @Roderick, speaking of “death cigs” and skulls and such… how about another seasonal snuff like pumpkin spice or something in a spooky Halloween collectors tin??

[Homer Simpson voice] Mmmmm… Pumpkins

Life is a mortal desease.

(woody Allen)

Definitely the pumpkin! Or perhaps spiced apple cider. Mulled wine? My two cents/pence…

Warning this product may make you collect snuff & snuff accessories,read history on snuff,Join snuff forums. Meet like mined snuff users,and dissolve your need to smoke cigarettes.

Life is a mortal desease.

Yes and it is spread through SEX

I consider babies a std. I’am in my 30s and my first instinct when someone tells me they’re having a baby is to tell them it won’t ruin their life and then thankfully before I open my mouth I realize they actualy meant to do that.

I think snuff should come with this warning label Warning: This tobacco product may cause extreme pleasure

What about “this product will divert money from the big brand cigarette industry”

The reason the EU changed the warning label from “Causes Cancer” to “This tobacco product is addictive and can damage your health” on snuff tins was that they discovered EU nasal snuff didn’t cause cancer!

I’m interested in how this happened. Did some manufacturer have to challenge the EU authorities and point out the real facts? Was there a study? Hard to imagine the EU would do this on their own volition as time and again it has been proven that authorities often lie, exaggerate and play loose with science and facts when The Greater Good ™ is concerned.

I agree. I don’t like warning labels. Except for what @n9inchnails provided. But I do wish all snuff listed their ingredients. And that wouldn’t likely happen without government intervention. I know that’s not very likely, but I think that knowing what’s in our precious powder would help drive the right decisions, just like it could for food products.

i agree completely with @puffpuff. it would make me feel more comfortable atleast. also could help those with allergies/certain lifestyles- eg nut derived scents, schmalzers (animal product) etc. i currently avoid snuffs that are explicitly nutty scents like peanut, coconut, almond etc… just to be safe.

@bob I’m a few years younger than you, but of a like mind. When I heard a woman at work was pregnant, the first words out of my mouth (before I could stop myself) were, “I’m sorry!”. My coworkers were appalled, but thankfully her response was, “I know, I am too!” hahaha. If you’re into Reddit, reddit.com/r/ChildFree is a good community for those of us who aren’t interested in procreating.

The reason the EU changed the warning label from “Causes Cancer” to “This tobacco product is addictive and can damage your health” on snuff tins was that they discovered EU nasal snuff didn’t cause cancer!

I’m interested in how this happened. Did some manufacturer have to challenge the EU authorities and point out the real facts? Was there a study? Hard to imagine the EU would do this on their own volition as time and again it has been proven that authorities often lie, exaggerate and play loose with science and facts when The Greater Good ™ is concerned.

Not entirely sure but I think the good Dr. Poschl and co had a hand in it…Please see below… copied from his web site… Nasal snuff does not increase the risk of cancer diseases The World Health Organisation (WHO) IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans declared in their recent publication on smokeless tobacco that several studies on the nasal use of snuff did not provide conclusive evidence of a relationship with cancer*. As a result of this statement of high-ranking scientists from the world’s most important Health Authority one can assume that nasal snuff does not increase the risk of cancer diseases. * see WHO IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans (2007): Smokeless Tobacco and some Tobacco-specific N-Nitrosamines, IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 89, Lyon 2007, page 366. Study shows: Nasal snuff does not cause risk of cancer 1. Background In the mid-nineties the Commission decided that all tobacco products have to be labelled with the warning message "causes cancer " or similar labels. Thus, also snuff was affected. This was a problem as this decision was taken without any scientifically durable study, which would have shown that cancer of the nose could be caused by snuff. The EU authorities recognized this problem soon after and replaced the wrong warning message with the now valid warning “This tobacco product can damage your health and is addictive”. Nevertheless, the global leader Pöschl Tabak assigned an independent advisory opinion at Prof. Dr. Eberhard Greiser, Director of the Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine in Bremen, to prepare an independent expert´s report.This was recommended by the German Federal Ministry of Health in Berlin, as well as by the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and the European Cancer Research Institute in Milan. Integral part of the treaty was that Pöschl Tabak will take no effect on the results. Core objective of the investigation was to answer the question of whether certain habits or factors at work in patients with cancers of the nose (cancer of the nasal cavity, the paranasal sinuses and the nasopharynx) happen more often than in the general population. The study, which took several years to complete and which was required for the opinion report, is one of the world’s largest investigations ever conducted on possible causes for nasal cancer. For this, all 427 patients or their relatives from the different ear, nose and throat clinics in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg were interviewed by the Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine from Bremen. As a control group, 2.401 randomly selected men living in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg who do not suffer from any type of nose cancer were interviewed. To ensure all scientific aspects within the framework of the planning, implementation and evaluation of the study, a Scientific Advisory Board consisting of independent researchers was also appointed by Professor Greiser. Members of this Advisory Board were: Prof. Dr. J. Chang-Claude (Chair woman), Director AG genetic epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg Prof. Dr. K.-H. Jöckel, Director of the Institute for medical informatics, biometry and epidemiology, University of Duisburg/Essen Prof. Dr. U. John, Director of the Institute for epidemiology and social medicine, University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. H. Maier, Chief medical doctor, head of the Department for ear, nose and throat medicine, Bundeswehr hospital Ulm. 2. Results of the study The consumption of only snuff represents no detectable disease risk. Solely the combination with smoking tobacco constitutes a detectable risk. Smoking is an extremely strong carcinogenic factor. The longer and the more a smoker has smoked, the greater is the risk of nasal cancer. The fact that the dust of hardwood is not conducive for nasal health, especially for the paranasal sinuses, was already discovered by a number of foreign researchers. This was impressively confirmed in the southern German nose cancer study. There are professional groups with higher disease risks for nasal cancer, such as welders. Solvents, as well as the application of insect destruction in households can be as unhealthy as cigarette smoking. The daily consumption of vegetables, fruit, salad or fruit juice can significantly reduce the risk of cancer. When grilling or roasting meat or sausages, carcinogenic substances arise, as has long been known. Also, these are obviously a risk of nose cancer. 3. Conclusion Pöschl Tabak, which financed the study as mentioned above but, according to the contract, didn´t have any influence on the results of the study, is very satisfied with the outcome of the long-term study. CEO Dr. Ernst Pöschl: “It has been demonstrated in a unique way for the first time that the consumption of snuff itself does not cause an increased risk of nasal cancer. Thus, snuff can be described as more harmless in terms of health in comparison to many other tobacco products.” Nasal snuff and nicotine Snuff is a tobacco product and also contains nicotine. Especially the English researcher Professor Russell has found out in studies that the body absorbes nicotine quite rapidly when sniffing. In small quantities, as enjoyed in snuff, nicotine is quite stimulating. This is today based on scientific knowledge. Snuff and condensate: nil Because tobacco is not burned when sniffing, the condensate substances known from smoking tobacco products do not arise. Snuff is not smoked. Therefore, this kind of pleasure also does not disturb your neighbours. Therefore, it is the ideal alternative of tobacco enjoyment wherever smoking is prohibited or is not liked to be seen. Certainly one reason why more and more people enjoy smoke-free tobacco. Snuff and sport As no condensate arises, snuff is the ideal stimulant for all sports men and women. Many athletes use snuff because it keeps their nose clear and refreshes at the same time. Warning for snuff While other tobacco products are being labelled with more and more tougher warnings, the EU-wide warning for snuff shows only the possible dangers of excessive consumption. Thus, snuff is on a similar level with other luxury goods, such as wine or coffee. After all, a pinch of snuff ensures uncomplicated refreshment and a real “free - in the head experience”. Without bad conscience: snuff is a smokeless tobacco allowed everywhere. Summary In general, it can be said that according to the up-to-date literature and science snuff is a very low-risk tobacco product and – as a result of its environmentally-friendly enjoyment without burning anything – it does not disturb any fellow men. Snuff is the ideal alternative for those looking for smoke-free enjoyment. Beyond that, the ingredients for snuff are part of the stringent German tobacco Act (formerly in the food legislation) with the tobacco regulation contained therein, and are subject to ongoing quality controls.

So they stumped up some moola… B-)

I think that the best warnings are some of the graphic"TOBACCO KILLS" pictures on 6 Photo tins. I’ve given the whole snuff speil before, so I’ll let other people do it this time!

Many thanks @Hoopei ! I thought I had read about this at some point. Thanks for finding this and Vielen Danke Pöschl, for paying for it.

I personally have had enough with the warning labels. Merely existing is hazardous in it’s own right. You do not see warning labels on cars: “Caution: If not properly operated could result in death, serious injury, and potentially adverse legal consequences”.

@peter77 it’s in the operators manual. That 's right no one reads them. And why would you mount a side view mirror that state objects are closer than they appear.Why not have actual sized view? ~X(

“warning !!! this warning is only on this snuff to keep the doom slayer’s happy”

Serious question: Has nasal snuff ever been proven by itself to be addictive, when used only nasally, in people who have never used other forms of tobacco, including oral use of snuff? I mean, we all presume it is addictive because of the N, but has it been proven?

@basement_shaman Guilty as charged, reading the owner’s manual is one of those things that I neglect to do, but really should. My mistake on that one. However, I am getting really sick of all the warning labels in American society as a whole. I will acknowledge that other societies to also bombard their citizens with warning labels, but I happen to be an American. I suppose that these disclaimers exist in a legal context, because people can get a little lawsuit happy, which is an unfortunate fact of life.

Unfortunately a lot of these warnings seem to have come about because of people’s stupidity, ie. buy something, hurt yourself with it, sue the company because there wasn’t a specific warning. “Warning, contents hot” on a cup of coffee springs to mind.

For many years I’ve read really dumb warnings and always wonder “what moron did that??!!” Do not iron clothes on body jumps to mind. I think most warning labels are merely hindering Natural Selection.

My favorite is the engraving on most new handguns saying ‘READ INSTRUCTION MANUAL BEFORE USE’ It apparently stems from this lawsuit against Beretta: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/17/business/fi-43618 Where some idiot kid stole a handgun, took out the magazine, and (thinking that it was unloaded) shot his friend dead. If he had read the manual, he would have known that there was still a round in the chamber, and the particular model of pistol he was using was capable of firing with the magazine removed. Shame he didn’t point it at himself instead of another person.

@doctorbeat Off topic, but… Need a good way to figure out which gun range in the area NOT to go to? Simple. All you have to do is to ask all the people you know who DON’T own guns if they know of a gun range in the area. Whichever gun range is most consistently mentioned by non gun-owners is the one that all of the amateurs (by which I mean those who don’t know proper gun safety) and suicidal people will know about, and thus the one that you should stay away from unless you enjoy getting swept by muzzles while people’s fingers are on the triggers. Similarly, if I hear of someone complaining about getting yelled at or kicked out by a rangemaster, I consider that a very good sign.

I hate the warning labels because I feel like it ruins the artistic side of the products.

While traveling I bought a brand of cigarettes I would never smoke simply because they had a rather disturbing photo of a fellow on the pack- turns out (or as told to me) the fellow had no idea his photo would be used in this way. So I suppose in this case I bought cigarettes because of the WARNING. Regardless – I am an adult and know that a good deal of what I do every day could have immediate fatal consequences, so I suppose any potential long term effects from enjoying snuff is completely on me.

Does anyone remember this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMcDxViiyQ&feature=youtu.be&t=20m (starts at 20:00)

Warning labels are shit… Why can’t they label our air, groundwater, food supply and so on… ?? Useless… pfffttt… makes me pissed off to even think about it… X(

…Why can’t they label our air, groundwater, food supply and so on… ??

Hey now don’t go putting ideas into their head

I found the best label on the back of a tin of Erinmore flake. Choose freedom, call so and so and we will help you stop smoking.

I hate the way warning labels take up so much space on some otherwise beautiful tins and bottles of snuff. The worst warning labels though are on the 45g tin of 6-Photo Kailash, a gruesome bleeding image of someone who has apparently destroyed his whole mouth and jaw and needed it removed. Ruins an otherwise a perfectly pretty Indian tin. (And is the reason why I wouldn’t want to carry around that tin and put it down on a bar for everyone to see to take a pinch, even though it is so cool otherwise.)

Our warning labels is the biggest part of a pack and you actually can see the mark name on a tiny side of a box

In any case warning labels keeps consciously and subconsciously the true message alive, for sure labels create bad feelings and destroy the design BUT what we can do?? Truth always was hard, thwart the “good” dreams… or better reveal the bad ones

Does anyone know why Dholakia’s Taj Naswar have a warning “causes cancer” but the other ones don’t?

Does anyone know why Dholakia’s Taj Naswar have a warning “causes cancer” but the other ones don’t?

Because it actually causes cancer?

Does anyone know why Dholakia’s Taj Naswar have a warning “causes cancer” but the other ones don’t?

Because it actually causes cancer?

Does it?

The thing is that Taj is mainly directed for the Indian market were it’s used oraly, so that why the “causes cancer” warning label. There aren’t many reviews of that snuff and much interest on it internationaly so far, so probably Dholakia have not decided yet to make an international label. Printing labels for export also generate costs.

So it is like that because of law. Thanks, Filek.

Sorry about my flippant comment @Viertel. I have no answer, but Filek certainly has a point. BTW, my small tin/tub says “Tobacco causes cancer”, which I think is more general when compared to, say, Taxi’s plain “causes cancer”.

Taj New Graphics

I choose to mostly not read the warning labels but, I am a man of function not class. If I wanted something pretty I wanted to look at something pretty I would look at my girlfriend. When I do read warnings, it is mostly to see if they are interesting or relevant. Something my girlfriend didn’t do when she plugged the space heater into a power strip. It nearly started the house on fire. I asked her if she read the big ass tag on the cord. She said she assumed it said not to drop it in the bathtub.

My favorite warning so far is on curling or straitening irons. Warning: Not for internal use.

I do get the disliking of the disgusting image warnings but, if I bought one with it on it, I would cut it off. If I could not cut it off I would tape it.

Something my girlfriend didn’t do when she plugged the space heater into a power strip. It nearly started the house on fire. I asked her if she read the big ass tag on the cord. She said she assumed it said not to drop it in the bathtub.

WTF !!! My wife has the same habit with the hair dryer 24h the day, what’s wrong with the women??? Imagine that i have printing a warning flyer and sticking it on the bathroom wall, maybe i must add electrocution graphics on, good idea… LOL

Sometime in the mid 90s. I remember learning of a man who poisoned himself with icecream. And then I read a study on the additives in hotdogs. That did it for me. Everything in moderation. With obvious items not included. (ie…cyanide) But for consumables, we find that common sense is not so common.

On Swisher snuff: “This product may cause gum disease and tooth lose” - well, you know, actually, it is better to lose only one tooth than more :lol: but still… By the way - does anyone know what does EG-Gesundheitsminister warnings mean on the Bernards? I know EG-Gesundheitsminister is “European Union Minister of Health”, but those numbers wonders me much more. For example: Bernard Postillion: L:8 A4 Bernard Magic Moments: L9 L2 Why do they differ and what do they mean exactly?

@Viertel: the general warning tekst for snuff in the EU is in the language of the country: “This tobacco product can damage your health and is addictive” Jaap Bes

Warning! ENJOY YOUR SNUFF or else the snuff fairies will come and get you!

@snuffmiller I’m talking about those numbers, I have not noticed them on any other snuff but Bernard and I wonder what do they mean

Something my girlfriend didn’t do when she plugged the space heater into a power strip. It nearly started the house on fire. I asked her if she read the big ass tag on the cord. She said she assumed it said not to drop it in the bathtub.

WTF !!! My wife has the same habit with the hair dryer 24h the day, what’s wrong with the women??? Imagine that i have printing a warning flyer and sticking it on the bathroom wall, maybe i must add electrocution graphics on, good idea… LOL

You can use this one

@n9inchnails lol… =)) next step is to stick that on the wall…

@Viertel: The numbers are Lot numbers the German authorities require them on each individual packet of snuff. It is a way of tracing where and when the particular batch of snuff was made. Jaap Bes.

Sorry to resurrect an old post but regarding labels, some tines no longer carry the “harmful to your health” warning and just have the “may be addictive” warning … Whats the reason behind this, are the labels changing or is it to do with different countries requiring different messages?

Sorry to sound ignorant and I know I could try and search the site, but for ease, is there a known or ‘thought’ potential health difference (or rather, different risk to health) from using Indian nasal (only) snuffs (I’m thinking of the Dholakia Fubar range in particular) than European ones?

Warning: This tobacco product can cause nasal orgasms lol

Tobacco doesn’t kill people. It makes people happy. That’s the reason nanny government officials want it banned.