I’ve been thinking about this recently, and the ramifications it could have, if it ever happens. There are different things to consider, such as the impact it would have on health, price, tax, availability, it becoming ‘trendy’, and all sorts. Any thoughts?
I thought that already happened, at least in here, lol edm
if that happened, I wouldn’t duck into the bathroom to take a pinch when I’m in public anymore! also, we might get more research about the health effects. I’m not convinced that there is even a single adverse effect for a snuff taker (apart from the effects already associated with nicotine on its own).
Disclaimed, intended as humor. If i would have expressed political sentiment it would not have been nearly this polite. Taxation 10g tin = $2.95 + $5.00 for state and local, a flurry of noise from the anti-tobacco groups because the whole thing targets children, a major US politician will come forward and say that he did sniff snuff but never inhaled (just kidding), pop stars will start sniffing during concerts and instead of cigarette lighters everyone in the crowd will wave their paisley print handkerchief. Big pharma will try to make up issues on health hazards since there will be no reason for the gum. E-Cigarette people will scoff since they get pure nicotine and we don’t. And last but not least, Wal-Mart will start carrying a full like of Toque (which honestly they should have at least a basic selection already).
Well said xapken! And all duty free shops at airports will stock snuff instead of cigarettes !!
I expect that if snuff became more popular it would be taxed beyond my pocket.
No doubt puritanical (if that word is not too loaded) factions would just try to stamp it out. I have the feeling that we are more or less a liberal minded (in the best possible sense) lot on here. That’s as close as I’m going to politics!
I don’t think it will be taxed like cigs. Even with chew becomeing more popular the trend isn’t to tax it like cigs. I think part of the tax on cigs passes because it’s just so darn gross. The tax on cigs really started to go up the more the public is aware of second hand smoke. Oh it will be taxed more but not like cigs.
Snuff is still highly taxed at present in India 80%excise+20%sales tax thereon.
I live here in Springfield, Missouri and we have just had an anti-smoking law passed so that you cannot smoke inside anywhere except your own home, and in some cases not even your own home. You cannot smoke in smoke shops or bars or private clubs even. If you hjave a nurse visit your home because you are sick, you can be fined $50 every time you are caught smoking in your home. I have seen a definite increase in snuff interest. Oh and that ban includes e-cigs too.
Holy sh!t! @thendrix that is terrible. That type of personal intrusion would make any dictator proud! I don’t even smoke cigs anymore, but I don’t like to hear that stuff. I don’t think it is right. Smoking is just the first thing to go. Happy meals have already been outlawed in san francisco! LOL. I always thought that politicians knew better than to take away simple pleasures from average folks? What happened to that? Strange times we are living in…
Other hypocrites with their own addictions and problems (they be damned if WE took away from THEM) sitting around telling US how to live and what to/and what not to do just plain pisses me off. That’s my two cents.
it’s so constant. There is always something people take too far. Guess it’s life.
Though one thing we’d always have going for us is that it’s better then cigs. So we could always use that arguement. It’s also less invasive then cigs which I think is one of the biggest things. Not going to effect your nurses health.
I’ve always been flabergasted by banning of smoking in a smoke shop. What are you doing there if you don’t want smoke?
I don’t think snuff ever will become that popular,atleast here in the US(to much of a smoking and chew culture). If it did somehow get as popular or more popular as ciggs then i wouldn’t be able to afford it,the US would simply tax it like ciggs and chew so it was so expensive that the average person can’t afford it except in limited quantities. To be honest just the fact that nasal snuff is getting talked about on the internet scares me,i wouldn’t put it past our government to start taxing it more just because a few people say they like it.
If snuff became as popular as cigs, then the tobacco/health nazi’s would then complain about the dust from pinching as second hand snuffing.
I don’t think snuff will ever be taxed like cigarettes. If anything I think it’s likely that especialy over a long enough time the tax may go down to encourage it for several reasons.
thendrix65804 this really is a sad thing for us. No smoking at the Brewco, Just for Him, or any other fine establishment. If we vote away eachother’s freedoms like this, soon we won’t have any more. These do-gooders don’t realize the monster they are creating and handing off to our children.
I wonder how many people realize that the “anti-smoking” lobbyists aren’t really just “anti-smoking” but rather full-blown tobacco prohibitionists? They make up health consequences for oral tobacco use all the time, some suggesting it is as dangerous, or MORE dangerous, than smoking. Just last week I saw an article on Huffington Post about smokeless that made exactly those assertions. All tobacco is dangerous, poisonous, and most importantly, immoral, according to these folks. The anti-smoking lobby against e-cigs is good proof of the mentality - it LOOKS like smoking, so it is evil, even if tobacco isn’t involved at all. Even worse, the nicotine comes from tobacco, so that clearly makes it even MORE immoral. They have a great deal of sway in political circles. If snuff was popular (a harm reduction website I saw said nasal snuff was “archaic” and they ignored it because “virtually no one uses snuff nasally”) I am positive it would receive the same negative attention that cigs, chew and even pipe are receiving. If you lived in Canada, you would know that snuff doens’t get any tax breaks compared to cigs. In fact, since they tax cigs individually and loose tobacco by weight, the tax rates are likely HIGHER on snuff, snus etc. You may think that won’t be the case in the US, but if I have learned anything from living next door for over 40 years, it is that the US gladly picks up any tax practice that increases revenue, regardless of “health consequences” rhetoric. That is my incredibly long-winded way of saying I think that if snuff were popular, it would be widely vilified, targeted with extra taxes, and be the subject of multiple laws restricting where you can use it, just like smoking cigarettes. Common sense doesn’t apply when it comes to tobacco products and the government’s response to them.