Let me begin by saying I'm not expert on nasal snuff, just an occasional user who has three tins lying around at the moment. You want expert? Read some blogs devoted to this stuff. But I have used nasal snuff many times, including today.
My first words of advice: Buy some red, blue or green Western-motif handkerchiefs. Do not, under any circumstance, consider blowing your snuff-sneezy nose into a white hankderchief. Use your imagination for what that brown blob looks like.
tobacco fans probably know that sniffing ground tobacco was the first known use of our favorite weed. Columbus found such use in Haiti during his second trip to the Americas. It gained favor in Europe, particularly among the upper crust of society. By the 1800s, that group discovered cigars. A century later and they had cigarettes and greatly improved pipes. Sniffing, or snorting, went into a tailspin.
But it never disappeared. And today every imaginable variety of flavor is available in commercial snuffs ordered from the Internet or even purchased in your local tobacco store. I've tried quite a few.
The newbie's first hurdle is how to use it. Pinching makes a mess. Putting it on the back of the hand is not very elegant. A snuff "bullet" can get you arrested for possessing drug paraphenalia. And snorting it through a straw or rolled-up dollar bill smacks of coke use. No, the best way to use it is from a small spoon. A perfect little spoon is the scraper that comes with the standard pipe tool - tamper, pick and scraper in one. Just scoop a small amount into the scraper, place it under one nostril, block the other nostril, and sniff lightly. Don't snort or the snuff will slam into the back of your throat, with much irritation. Sniff. As if you're smelling it, not vaccuming it.
If snuff has a problem, it's the same as most nicotine-replacement therapies: There's no instant hit. It's quicker than most, but not instant the way a cigarette smoker expects. But wait 10 minutes and you might not be able to stand up. Many snuffs contain large nicotine hits, greater than a mild cigarette, and the effect is usually delayed. This may cause the sniffer to take a second hit, resulting in regret 10 minutes later.
I found snuff prices to be very reasonable. And it can be used in other ways. For instance, wet a toothpick, stick it into the snuff and then rest it inside the mouth against the gums. Your grandma might have soaked a stick in snuff, which she then sucked on all day. Snuff can also be cooked into brownies, as cannibis is. And it can be sprinkled into a pipe to increase the nicotine content.
Big advantage: It can be used in non-smoking environments.
But, for me, there's no smoke and not a lot of reward from sniffing it. The e-pipe at least offers me visual satisfaction, even if the vapor is essentially tasteless. (I'd smoke my real pipes for taste alone!).
Check out some snuff forums for opinions from hard-core snuff devotees. They love it and many are ex-smokers.
My first words of advice: Buy some red, blue or green Western-motif handkerchiefs. Do not, under any circumstance, consider blowing your snuff-sneezy nose into a white hankderchief. Use your imagination for what that brown blob looks like.
tobacco fans probably know that sniffing ground tobacco was the first known use of our favorite weed. Columbus found such use in Haiti during his second trip to the Americas. It gained favor in Europe, particularly among the upper crust of society. By the 1800s, that group discovered cigars. A century later and they had cigarettes and greatly improved pipes. Sniffing, or snorting, went into a tailspin.
But it never disappeared. And today every imaginable variety of flavor is available in commercial snuffs ordered from the Internet or even purchased in your local tobacco store. I've tried quite a few.
The newbie's first hurdle is how to use it. Pinching makes a mess. Putting it on the back of the hand is not very elegant. A snuff "bullet" can get you arrested for possessing drug paraphenalia. And snorting it through a straw or rolled-up dollar bill smacks of coke use. No, the best way to use it is from a small spoon. A perfect little spoon is the scraper that comes with the standard pipe tool - tamper, pick and scraper in one. Just scoop a small amount into the scraper, place it under one nostril, block the other nostril, and sniff lightly. Don't snort or the snuff will slam into the back of your throat, with much irritation. Sniff. As if you're smelling it, not vaccuming it.
If snuff has a problem, it's the same as most nicotine-replacement therapies: There's no instant hit. It's quicker than most, but not instant the way a cigarette smoker expects. But wait 10 minutes and you might not be able to stand up. Many snuffs contain large nicotine hits, greater than a mild cigarette, and the effect is usually delayed. This may cause the sniffer to take a second hit, resulting in regret 10 minutes later.
I found snuff prices to be very reasonable. And it can be used in other ways. For instance, wet a toothpick, stick it into the snuff and then rest it inside the mouth against the gums. Your grandma might have soaked a stick in snuff, which she then sucked on all day. Snuff can also be cooked into brownies, as cannibis is. And it can be sprinkled into a pipe to increase the nicotine content.
Big advantage: It can be used in non-smoking environments.
But, for me, there's no smoke and not a lot of reward from sniffing it. The e-pipe at least offers me visual satisfaction, even if the vapor is essentially tasteless. (I'd smoke my real pipes for taste alone!).
Check out some snuff forums for opinions from hard-core snuff devotees. They love it and many are ex-smokers.
) and felt quite proud of the fact that my tiny pinch made me a 10/10 man... okay then I'll settle for a 9.5 and hey it wasn't that tiny! 
