Eeek… Letting all of those stranger’s fingers dip into your snuffbox? Who knows where those hands have been!! I don’t even allow my own fingers into my snuffboxes. Skin oils don’cha know…
So getting back on topic here…I pretty much snuff wherever, I don’t do it while driving much just because it’s a potential distraction from getting the snuff out and putting it back etc. While working temporarily at a bookstore recently I decided to snuff in the bathroom, mostly because I didn’t think that employees sniffing anything would go over too well with customers (I’m in the US) But I pretty much will take a pinch or snuff off the back of my hand anywhere and anytime.
Thanks Bob, keep the drug stuff off snuffhouse please guys, whatever the discussion.
I was sitting in a big circle at a meeting with 20 or 30 other people. Grabbed my box, had a pinch, really no one cares. Out of respect I don’t take snuff in a classroom, or at court, or other places where that sort of thing would be looked down on, otherwise, snuff-on!
If memory serves… Didn’t an edict go out at one time (a few centuries ago) from the Bishop of Canterbury (maybe the Pope?) due to the fact that too many priests were taking a pinch during the Liturgy?
The rumour that i was one of those priests isn’t true, I was only twelve years old at the time. 8< )
Howdy Nachman! Not to worry… I do it all the time when I am on retreat at the monastery! ©¿©¬
nah thank everyone for actualy listening. 
In Seville in the 1600s you could have your nose cut off for snuffing within the precincts of a church. I took a pinch in church today though.
I wonder if that ever actualy happened?
A lot’s of crazy things go on in Churches… I’m not surprised that noses were cut off.
Ironically, this is the only saving grace of the tap-box [which I otherwise dislike with a passion!] - it is convenient, and “polite”. Actually had a tap-box become a talking point yesterday evening. I had been into Birmingham, and visited John Hollingsworth’s, where I had picked-up some GH Western Glory among other delights. Stopped-off for a beer when I got off the train back near home, took a little Western Glory with my ale, and left the box in front of me on the bar [it’s the kind of free-house, real-ale pub where one can relax in that manner]. A youngish chap, stopping-by for a beer before a train journey asked what the little gold box was - and immediately expressed a desire to enjoy tobacco without the aspects of smoking which he clearly disliked. Needless to say, I shared a pinch, and suggested a tobacconist or two in his destination city, when he expressed pleasure that the hit from one small pinch had satisfied his desire for nicotine for a while! Does achieving this outcome from unobtrusively snuffing in a public place count as evangelism?
@matsnuffs In classroom works between lessons, if the room is empty for a minute or so - and is another huge advantage we have over that swathe of philistines who insist on burning their tobacco!
@Fretless: Now that’s a good story, thanks !
I snuff everywhere: work, church, lodge, etc. Sometimes I am discreet about it, other times not much so. Take people and who they are for what they are has always been my motto. It so happens I use snuff, so ain’t no shame in that. Some people pound potato chips at their desk, when they shouldn’t be. Ain’t no shame in that, either.