Afghan Naswar Tobacco

[tom502]

Are those bottles of Sprite, Mountain Dew, RC Cola, and Dr Pepper, they use to flavor it with?

[raptor]

Are those bottles of Sprite, Mountain Dew, RC Cola, and Dr Pepper, they use to flavor it with?

No, it's recycled packaging. UAE does the same thing with their dokha tobacco. I even think some professionally packaged ones use recycled soda bottles.

[Jwalker]

Well to each their own I prefer basic quality standards in products I consume stuff like certification there's not horse shit in it.

[Roo]

Well to each their own I prefer basic quality standards in products I consume stuff like certification there's not horse shit in it.

Lol avoid Uzbekistan at all costs then. China too. And anywhere in between, for that matter.

[gax1985]

No, it's recycled packaging. UAE does the same thing with their dokha tobacco. I even think some professionally packaged ones use recycled soda bottles.

i never ever seen smokeless tobacco in the gulf region ( I was born and raised in kuwait ). Funny name for the UAE tobacco , it means "dizziness" in arabic

[Mykislt]

i never ever seen smokeless tobacco in the gulf region ( I was born and raised in kuwait ). Funny name for the UAE tobacco , it means "dizziness" in arabic

Dokha's not a smokeless tobacco, it's smoked in a pipe called a midwakh (sp?)

[Xobeloot]

I thought I had remembered seeing this thread some time ago. I got a pinch of this from an Afghan soldier today. He had 2 types. One was the green stuff in the can. Nothing special about it other than the taste sticking with me half the day. The other came in a brick wrapped in cellophane. It looked like camel shit (and didn't smell much better). I broke off a small bit and formed a pris and popped it in. Didn't notice any nicotine from either, but I had also just spit out a pouch of thunder. I was later told by one of the soldiers from New Zealand not to trust the stuff as it often has opiates in it. DOubt that was the case as I felt absolutely nothing from the stuff, but it was interesting to try nonetheless.

[precious007]

I was just googleing naswar again and came up to this :

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2635441240&v=wall

ain't safe...

[shikitohno]

precious, don't be silly and declare something unsafe based on a facebook group. We get treated to pictures like that for all oral tobacco in high school. They particularly harp on dip, despite the fact that you're so much more likely to develop oral cancers from smoking. I'd be down to try it once or twice myself if I came across it, and I'll wait on some sort of solid scientific study to be done on it before I just write it off as unsafe.

[Nuusku]

Photo of vendors of snuslike tobacco in Uzbekhistan.
I think that is Naswar too.

This stuff is currently available on online auctions website in Poland
(2,20EUR for 5g)

Imagine a burst of wind, right there...

[EricHill78]

I'm all over the version that has opiates!

[GoVegan]

I'm all over the version that has opiates!

Bonus!

[Reynard]

I'm all over the version that has opiates!

Haha, +1

[precious007]

Opiates give you nausea ! :^)

****`em

[spirit72]

At first glance, I read the title of this thread as 'Afghan Nasal Tobacco'.

Ah, well. Back to my Zweifacher.


Carry on!!!!