…compared to other forms of tobacco? I used to spend more on RYO in a coupla weeks than I’ll spend in a year on snuff! Not that I’m complaining, mind.
Snuff is not taxed. I think this was an effort by the UK government to encourage snuff use over smoking due to lessened risk of health hazards. Someone will assuredly correct me if I’m wrong. =)
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Here’s a good page regarding this topic.
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Currently I am still smoking, and in my state my Marlboro smooths are $6.12 a pack. Hence why ordered an ungodly amount of Snuff lol. Fine with me. !!!
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RYO is around
Highest I’ve paid in Seattle is $12 and change, but runs around $8-10 a pack most places outside of the city proper. Crazy, and very hard to justify.
I’m 32. My Grandfather told me he quit smoking because it got too expensive… at $5 a carton!
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Snuff is efficient. You don’t use much raw material. If we say that a reasonably greedy snuff user uses five grams a day – that’s about what I’m on – that’s about the same weight as two cigarettes. In Australia, where tobacco tax is calculated on the basis of weight, not as a proportion of the sales price, snuff is about the only affordable form of tobacco, although even then the tax far outweighs the product cost (Incidentally, that means that the cost of the most expensive premium snuffs is only marginally higher than the cheapest bargain basement product). I even saw a website that suggested saving money by making nasal snuff out of Lucky Strike no filters. You could do worse, I guess, but you can find much better tobacco around in my neck of the woods for a lower price. Incidentally, a pack of ciggies in Australia sets you back close to twenty bucks.
EDIT: Actually, weight-for-weight, snuff is one of the most expensive forms of tobacco. Abraxas and SWS are close to a dollar a gram. At that price, a pack of cigarettes would be fifty bucks. I don’t know what the per gram weight of a good Havana cigar is, interesting to hear from someone who knows.
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You’re paying for time. Or at least I am, since it’s so easy to make a decent snuff I don’t think the mass producers can charge much more than they do now. As always small handmade artisanal products will always demand a premium, be it snuff or bread. But like bread while it’s hard to make some fancy artisanal loaf it’s incredibly easy to toss the ingredients together in a machine and get something decent all by yourself. So I don’t think snuff is cheap, nor expensive. They seem pretty fair.
Dunno what happened to my post starting ‘RYO is around’…must’ve passed out or summat. Anyway… here in the UK RYO is around
Is summat wrong with this site or my phone? My posts keep getting truncated!
@fj1988 if you use non-ascii characters the post gets truncated, I assume you were typing the pound sign? I don’t know why this is still happening, it should be an easy fix for them.
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786 I was actually having the same problem a few days ago, also from my 'phone. As soon as I typed a few capital letters in a row (I was trying to type NC Arya) the browser would crash. This happened four times in a row. I find it interesting that @fj1988 was also typing several capital letters in a row at the point where his posts were getting cut off.
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And there’s me thinking snuffhouse didn’t want me around anymore! Best keep things simple in future. Anyway… in England good roll-up baccy is around 18-19 pounds for 50g, your ‘average’ snuff is around 3 pounds and fifty pence for 25g. That makes snuff seem dirt cheap and roll-up tobacco horribly expensive, to me.
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786 Eighteen pounds! That’s a king’s ransom!
Hey @slobandtom I’m sure you get this all the time but why the “786” on every post.
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I figured ocd, 7 8 … 
786 It’s kind of like how Thelemites use 93 and Discordians use 23. ( @SnuffSlinger, @snuffsahoy I’ll send a pm)
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So… ocd then?
Other forms of tobacco are recognized vices, consequentially, the government taxes the crap out of them.
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786 Then let’s hope our legislators remain uncultured Philistines and never read one of the many books from bygone eras which describe snufftaking as a vice! When I was a youth and came across such references I was always like, “vice!? They’re just sneezing!” (At the time I was biased by the pinch of Garrett my dad had given me from the back of his hand when I was eight or nine; therefore I believed that snuff was something one took in order to make oneself sneeze)
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