Hi. While we’re on the subject, I need to know something.
Q: What’s a ‘Snuff Box’? What do they look like? Do they look like jewelry boxes? Do they look like cigar boxes? All info, including links / pix appreciated.
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Snuff is sold today and many use it regularly. I use it sometimes. I can recommend Viking Dark. I have my tin here on my desk. It’s definitely not for sneezing, but because of the nice tobacco taste/smell. When you’ve used it a couple of times, you seldom sneeze. You take a little pinch of in, take it to the nose, draw in a little bit, like if you smell a flower (it is not pleasant to get it high up in the nose), and then – enjoy. The nicotine buzz is very small, comparing to other tobacco products. I recommend it (in moderation, of course, like any tobacco).
Because you’re supposed to put it in your mouth. It’s most popular in Sweden, wikipedia says 12% irrespective of gender, but also probably higher among males.
I have only seen nasal snuff once in the wild. I’m not even sure where to buy it: does 7-11 carry it next to the dipping tobacco, snus, and (less common) chewing tobacco? It may be that I don’t know all the brands to know what category a given product is.
The person who used it would be the last person I’d expect. It was done before “going out,” and was too dark to be coke, so…
The one I’ve seen the wife’s uncle use is just a little tiny jar, maybe similar to the ones for Tiger Balm only smaller. But I’ve mentione elsewhere that I have a small collection of Chinese snuff bottles. They’re really neat. Some have little cocaine-spoon-type utensils stuck to the stopper.
These bottles can be quite pricey, but there’s this one one I actually bought for the wife. Paid the equivalent of US$5 at a market in Beijing, and using some sort of inscriber the seller wrote her name on the inside, meaning he had to write backwards, and in English to boot!
Again, sneezing does not seem to be part of the snuff culture among the older Chinese community here.
Tibetans and Himalayan hill people take snuff in this method today. Tibetan Buddhist monks do this a lot. It certainly wasn’t about sneezing in my experience. They definitely took some kind of a “hit” off of the snuff
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The two of you sound ridiculous arguing the scientific merit of the products of the same body of work. But then perhaps that’s not the body by which you are judging . . . :smack:
Here in Virginia, every convenience store carries, at a minimum, American moist snuff (i.e. “dip”, e.g. Copenhagen, Skoal), and chewing tobacco (e.g. Red Man). A few, including the one closest to me, now offer the “General” brand of Swedish snus.
I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched.
My nipples EXPLODE with delight! [achoo!]
Like any human activity, snuff-taking has a world championship (Youtube video is at the top of the page)
The stuff I had in Iceland was definitely meant to be snorted.
From the article:
I assume that is what I had.
And there’s a snuff box at the entrance to the Commons in the Houses of Parliament. The principal doorkeeper pays for the snuff out of his own pocket. He’s quoted in this BBC article:
D’oh, read the article and still missed the key word in that paragraph. Although the words are etymologically equivalent, snus should mean oral in English at least.
I used to dip (not snort) snuff. I was a chain dipper, with a pinch in at all times except when sleeping or eating. I quit after about 25 years and don’t ever plan to start again, but danged if “tootling off to the snuff shop” doesn’t sound like the coolest thing ever!
Not to belabor the obvious, but a snuff box is, well, a box that holds snuff. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when snuff use was common, men carried it in small boxes. They could be quite ornate, and in some circles were de rigueur for the well-dressed man.
More pics here:
https://londonparticulars.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/snuff-box.jpg
