Nasal Snuff Manliness rating = 10.0

[piks101]

I'm as much for snus as the next guy, but the author is too politically motivated. Cigarettes an 0.5? Manliness may vary, as it does with all the products, but cigarette's coolness factor is through the roof

In the 50's yes, now it's a sign of weakness.

[Darwin]

Wish I still smoked if only to give a big fat middle finger to the nanny state.

[Roo]

Wish I still smoked if only to give a big fat middle finger to the nanny state.

Your tax dollars come with a big fat middle finger? That's pretty awesome.

[Darwin]

I'm loathe to admit it Roo-man but I confess I just don't get your presumably trenchant retort. Probably senility finally setting in.

[Roo]

Oh perhaps it was a locational misunderstanding. Here in Seattle we seem to raise taxes on cigarettes every 6 months. They are hovering just under $10 a pack these days in King County. The pleasure of sticking it to the man comes with a $5 price tag.

[ratcheer]

In the mid-1950's, when I was about five years old, there were two little old ladies who lived next door to my grandmother. They dipped Scotch snuff all the time. They used little wooden spoons that were like ice cream spoons, but smaller. And they spit into spittoons. I specifically remember brands such as Garrett's, Honey Bee, and Bruton's.

Many years later, I was very surprised when I found out that people snort snuff into their noses. These old ladies always dipped it into their mouths, I guess in front of their lower front teeth.

Tim

[GENERAL BILLY]

Until it became a big thing on this site the last person I was aware of that used Nasal Snuff was Oscar Wilde. I suspect this Manliness scale might have a thumb on it.

[Anthony85]

Hmm. I was called "faggoty" the other day for taking a snuff. Maybe I should inform him that some guy, somewhere on the internet rated it at 10.0 on a manliness scale, even though this scale probably hasn't been independently calibrated and our results may vary.

[EricHill78]

If it wasn't for this site I'd have no idea what snuff is.. Now I enjoy it daily.. I do use a
bullet at work even though it looks like I'm doing something else. I'm waiting for someone to mess with me so I can "school em" on the ways of the snuff.

Edit - I still for the life of me can't fathom how you can dip the stuff because it's a fine powder. Does saliva make it thicker
and stick together? Plus you only do a pinch in the nose.. You would use alot more to dip it so wouldn't
you be getting 20x the nic? I'm thinking no because it's absorbed differently maybe? Just curious.

[jagmanss]

If it wasn't for this site I'd have no idea what snuff is.. Now I enjoy it daily.. I do use a
bullet at work even though it looks like I'm doing something else. I'm waiting for someone to mess with me so I can "school em" on the ways of the snuff.

Edit - I still for the life of me can't fathom how you can dip the stuff because it's a fine powder. Does saliva make it thicker
and stick together? Plus you only do a pinch in the nose.. You would use alot more to dip it so wouldn't
you be getting 20x the nic? I'm thinking no because it's absorbed differently maybe? Just curious.

From what I saw in my local tobacco shop and from my lack of knowledge there of.. Isn't there nasal snuff and oral snuff.. Not to be confussed with one another...

[EricHill78]

I think you're right.. But from what I gather is people started dipping
the nasal snuff.. That's how snus came to be. Like The WE Garrett is supposed to be nasal snuff but people dip it instead.

Oh another cool thing about snuff is how cheap it is.. Cheaper than snus even.. Buy a few economy bags from toque you'd be set for years I bet.

[tom502]

I would not say that they starting dipping nasal snuff. Dry snuff has been dipped all over the world, India for example. Also swedish snus started as a nasal snuff. But yeah, somewhere down the line, someone started dipping dry snuff, I tend to think it's origin may have been simulateous. Do Germans or British dip their snuffs? I doubt it, but their snuffs are different. Scotch snuffs seem to have a dual usage ability.

[ratcheer]

If it wasn't for this site I'd have no idea what snuff is.. Now I enjoy it daily.. I do use a
bullet at work even though it looks like I'm doing something else. I'm waiting for someone to mess with me so I can "school em" on the ways of the snuff.

Edit - I still for the life of me can't fathom how you can dip the stuff because it's a fine powder. Does saliva make it thicker
and stick together? Plus you only do a pinch in the nose.. You would use alot more to dip it so wouldn't
you be getting 20x the nic? I'm thinking no because it's absorbed differently maybe? Just curious.

I don't think so. The old ladies I was talking about always just had a runny, brown mess in their mouths. I never could understand how they did it, either.

It sure smelled good to a little boy and future tobacco addict, though.

Tim

[ratcheer]

From what I saw in my local tobacco shop and from my lack of knowledge there of.. Isn't there nasal snuff and oral snuff.. Not to be confussed with one another...

What those old ladies were using was the dry, fine powdered Scotch snuff. Again, I don't know how they enjoyed it, but they did. Also, I am 100% certain that when they bought their cans, the little wooden spoons were provided for the purpose of dipping. In fact, I just now remembered the term they used: "dipping snuff".

Tim

[Darwin]

I have a feeling that even back in the bad old days that dipping dry snuff was a more cost effective way of getting one's nic hit than buying ready-made cigs or even rolling your own. Also then, just as now, dipping a few times an hour was a big operational improvement over cigs when both one's hands were perpetually busy as would have been the case with rural women. Men too come to that.