Snuff

[GunClick Rick]

Why did they snort snuff way back then,or was it actualy something else like cocaign??

[Stu Kettle]

Why did they snort snuff way back then,or was it actualy something else like cocaign??

For the same reason that people smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco.  Snuff, which is still available, is tobacco in the form of a fine powder.

[GunClick Rick]

Yea,my grandpa could put snuff in one cheeck,a chew in the other,smoke a pipe and a cigar,and drink a half pint of Kesslers all at one time,but snuff in your nose? Are there cases of nose cancer?

[Delmonico]

You mean dip, rather than snuff?  Dip is often called snuff but snuff is finer, drier and is snorted.  Part of snuff besides the nicotine was folks thought sneezing was good for you and cleared your head. 

[Stu Kettle]

Dip is sometimes called snoose, but that's probably not how you spell.  One of the problems is that Copenhagan, which is dip, says "snuff" right on the can.  On the other hand, when I was a kid I used to watch in amazement when one of my Granddad's friends used to snort Copenhagen up his nose. 

[JimBob]

I tried some of the kind you snort up your nose......once.It'll give you a heck of a rush followed by violent sneezing.LOL Once was enough.

[ColonelFlashman]

That "Rush" is exactly why that individuals used Snuff.

[St. George]

Indeed.

And its use wasn't confined to males, either.

Women often used snuff - and carried it in ornate little boxes, too.

'Tobbaccoania' is an amazingly diverse field for a collector - what with snuff boxes, cigar cases, matchsafes and so on and so forth.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Shotgun Franklin]

My Daddy's Mother was born in the late 1800s. She used Garrett Snuff her whole life. She'd put a pinch between her lip and gum and spit the juice into a little cup with a bit of tissue in it. She'd always have a little can of snuff in her purse along with dozens of tissues. She died prematurely at age 96.

[Don Nix]

My great grand mother used Garrett snuff. She kept a pinch in her mouth al the time. I never knew it until I walked around the corner one day just as she spit into the spitoon that sat on the porch. She would never spit when anyone was around as that wasnt lady like.
Snuiff was originally sniffed. It cleared the sinuses ,made yu sneeze and gives you a quick rush.
i tried it when I was a kid. didnt take but one time to break me from the Garrett snuff habit.
Tho I did start chewing ,twist tobbacco at age 11 then onto Brown Mule and later Union Standard for years.

[GunClick Rick]

Paps kept his in this

[wildman1]

That there Copenhagen is much better whan ya put it in ya upper lip instead a ya lower.  WM

[Stu Kettle]

That there Copenhagen is much better whan ya put it in ya upper lip instead a ya lower.  WM

It don't taste any better that way, but it does make much less drool that way - so less need to spit

[GunClick Rick]

Love is sweet
and sometimes bitter
when ya kiss
a tabaccy spitter 



spoitooooeeeey`.~,

[Drayton Calhoun]

My dad's mother was born in 1881. And, like Shotgun's grandma, she used snuff, Bruton's, she passed at the young age of 97

[GunClick Rick]

Do they still make those brown snuff bottles? I found five of them yesterday,used and empty with corks.