Dry Snuff
a.k.a.: Nasal Snuff
Last update 4 November, 2007
This is a Trademark was shamelessly pirated from:
Bernard Tobacco
For the sake of clarity let me state once again that I am talking about DRY snuff -- not Skol, Copenhagen or any of the other spit snuffs! Spit snuff contains chemicals that can damage your nose!
See my site (all of it)
I had blocked eustachian tubes for more than 6 months! I tried decongestants, Flonase and numerous other medications. My GP and my Ear, Nose & Throat specialist were unable to do a thing about it.
I went down to Memphis, Tennessee for a marriage a while back. While there I saw some Garrett Sweet Mild Snuff. I bought it for a lark just to find out about that snuff stuff that people down south use. WITHIN 24 HOURS my eustachian tubes were unplugged! I now call dry snuff my "therapeutic vice."
I have scoured the internet from the American Cancer Society to the World Health Organization looking for information about dry snuff and cancer. The only negative report I have been able to find about dry snuff is a flyer written by Dr. John Hill in 1761. He later recanted his report and said that he had written it because he was pissed off at his local tobacconist!
My interactive sources of information are:
SnuffTalk.org (SnuffTalk forum)
Snuffhouse.org
The Yahoo Snuff Box - Nasal Snuff group
(You have to sign up with Yahoo to gain access to Yahoo groups.)
The "recognized authority" on the net when it comes to snuff is:
Snuffs & Snuff Taking
A veritable warehouse of information is Gallaher Group Plc.
Here are some links that I have found about snuff and manufacturers of snuff. If you land on a main/home page, click on the snuff option, They are not prioritized, only in alphabetical order.
- A Brief History of Snuff
- A Quick History
- All About Snuff and Snuff Taking
- Alldaut Indian Snuff
- Conwood Sales Co., L.P.
- A Farewell to Tobacco and a Pinch of Snuff (.pdf file)
- Fredrick Tranter
- International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society
- IPCO Creamy Snuff
- Make your own snuff
- Masonic Snuff Boxes (Phoenix Masonic Museum)
- McChrystals Ltd.
- On Sniffing Snuff (from IndiaNest.com - a .pdf file)
- Pöschl Snuff
- The Pöschl Story (all about snuff)
- Samuel Gawith & Co. Ltd.
- Sheffield Exchange
- S. Scott Powers (snuff items)
- Snuff Bottle Store
- Snuff Bottles (from the Brunnier Art Museum)
- Snuff in the Senate
- Snuffbooster
- SnuffTalk
Snuff Tobacco UK
- Snuffs-R-us
- Snuff Windmills of Holland
- The Seven Rules of Taking Snuff
Where to get it!
All locations are in the USA unless otherwise indicated.
This image was shamelessly pirated from a post card that somebody was selling on E-bay!
- Gebr. Bernard Schnupftabakfabrik (Germany) - snuff bottles too!
- Danny's Tobacco
- EstatePipes (Germany)
- Greens of Leeds (England)
- Knoxville Cigar Company
- Mars Cigars
- McGahey the Tobacconist (England)
- Mr. Bills Pipe and Tobacco Search
- Old Virginia Tobacco Co.
- Old West Cigar Company
- Penn Valley Pipes & Tobacco
- Schönberger (Germany)
- Smoker's Haven
- www.snuff.me.uk
- Snuff Shop
- Snuff Store (UK)
- Snuff Supermarket (UK)
- Top-Cigars(Germany)
- Toque Tobacco (Scotland)
- Wesleys (South Africa)
- ZiggyMart Tobacco (new URL)
Snufflore...
One of England's top snuff authorities relates the following:
- The Rev Obadiah Shadrack (b 1721 d 1745) found his house on
fire and rushed out only to rush back realising he had left his
snuffbox in his house. He was reduced to a cinder, though his
snuffbox survived....
- In 1842 Ermyntrude Wiggins aged 45 was brutally battered to death in Liverpool, England, by her fiance Mr. Toby Gumble, because she offered him a pinch of snuff which caused him to sneeze. He was acquitted of murder on the grounds that he had been provoked...
- SS. Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Scheiss (spying in England in 1941 under the false name Harry Shite) sent an urgent message to Poschl in Bavaria asking for a supply of snuff to be be delivered to him via Lisbon. This was intercepted by MI6, as a result of which he was discovered and shot in the Tower of London...
An American authority who's ancestor fell off of the Mayflower in 1620 relates:
- On October 19, 1864 twenty Confederate cavalrymen rode down out of Canada and took over the town of St. Albans, Vermont in the northernmost battle of the Civil War. After robbing all three local banks the soldiers stopped at the general store in order to replenish their low snuff supply before making the long ride back to Canada. Upon finding that the store did not carry snuff, they burned it to the ground before making off with over $200,000...
Nicky the Nose (a snuff peddler from England) writes:
- I knew of one man who gave up smoking cold turkey and turned down an ounce of snuff to act as nicotine replacement therapy, he couldn't handle it at all. He turned to drink, lost his job and his friends and got very unwell, physically and mentally as a result of drinking and turning down snuff.
The 5-S
- There is a very old international secret society known as "The 5-S." It's roots in North America appear to go back to the immigration of the Hugonaughts. Very little is known about The 5-S except for the fact that it is international in scope and has members all over the world.
Snuff Lore Links
A Pinch of Snuff By: I.L. Pretz (from JHOM)