Strange use of tobacco

Hiker007

I learned something that I never knew by watching pipe related YouTube videos. Snuff was originally snorted through the nose, and is still very popular in England. Nasal snuff is not very popular in the States, and hard to even find for sale. I remember my mom talking about her grandmother using snuff. I asked my mom about it and she said that her grandmother did snort snuff. Is this strange use of tobacco just new information to me or is it common knowledge that somehow I never knew about? Also, one video made reference that many pipe smokers also use nasal snuff. Just wondering if there really is a lot of pipe smokers out there who use nasal snuff? Also, if you have or do use nasal snuff what comments might you want to share about it? One last thing, where would one buy it in the States?

LostMason

Kind of new to you. On another site I frequent,they have threads devoted to nasal snuffs.

Try looking them up in "Love's" convienience stores,or you could do a web search.

Some have taken super dry pipe tobacco and used a spice grinder to make their own.

If you try it,start with a very very small pinch.

Woodsman

I've tried it, it did a job on the sinuses. I think it's illegal to ship in the US, all the sites that sell it are in Europe, mainly Great Britain like Mr. Snuff. Judging that most of the Snuff users on the international sites are indeed in Europe. What the old folks used to call Dipping Snuff (Like "Bandit") is referred to as "Snu" on the international sites.

 There are at least a hundred different brands available on the Snuff Dealers listing, some are US made but you have to go to an international shipper.

The flavored ones are intensely strong and the "Nic" hit is very strong as well.

thebadgerpiper

Snuff isn't that odd of a use for tobacco, even though it's not as common.

Have you heard of Tobacco enemas? Now that's odd.

http://gizmodo.com/blowing-smoke-up-your-ass-used-to-be-literal-1578620709

Hiker007

@thebaderpiper Your right. However, I am not sure if that is strange or gross. I can promise you I will not be using my pipe in that manner.

PappyJoe

And I thought using cigarette tobacco to treat bee and wasp stings was strange.

Charles

Snuff was still popular in the 60s & 70s.  In Philly, nearly every drugstore carried it on the shelves next to the cigars and pipe tobacco.  In those days, one could pick up a bottle right off the shelf.  Most common bottle around here was: 

motie2

I used a few varieties ofFribourg & Treyer snuff back in the day. It was fun, smelled nice (heavily cased? Nah, wrong term. Flavored? Scented?), and gave you a little kick. 

ghostsofpompeii

@thebadgerpiper I've heard of coffee enemas but never tobacco enemas. I imagine it can pretty uncomfortable having a cup of coffee and smoking your pipe from an orifice other than your mouth. I just tried smoking my pipe that way but found it too difficult to maneuver the match over the bowl and couldn't get enough draw to light it.  

Philip

New record for going off the rails.Please, no details!!

By the way, I'll never buy an estate again.

Woodsman

Did some mention a Tobacco Smoke Enema? Here's the instrument. Can we get back to Snuff now?

Dipping Snuff is called "Snus'', not Snu, Sorry.

thebadgerpiper

As a side note, I do not recommend using your pipe as a method for a tobacco enema. Please, use something else, or perhaps see a doctor instead.

motie2

In what is probably a minority report (and being a perpetrator myself) I find the meanderings in a discussion to oftentimes be the most interesting parts.

But, we probably could start an medical uses discussion. Would that be ironic or just weird?

Topaz75

I'm not exactly sure what blend might be best for the pipe smoke enema. I suppose that any tobacco that's packaged in the can would be appropriate.

motie2

I'm thinking the Frosty Mint blend that @ghostsofpompeii has mentioned, elsewhere.

Philip

I didn't want to click on this link, but I couldn't help myself. 

Ironic, yes. Weird, without a doubt.

Londy3

LMAO, so after learning about the Smoke Up Your Ass, I don't think I will ever use that phrase again

PappyJoe

Gives a new meaning to "blowing smoke."

Topaz75

If the pipe smoke enema is indeed successful, I suspect this may have a dramatic impact on the room note of the tobacco.

xDutchx

I always find the origin of particular phrases interesting. As Paul Harvey used to say, "Now you know the rest of the story."

As for the original posters comment, when I was a young lad, I always wondered why they were able to sell the brown glass vials, kits, and bullets used to snort cocaine in the local head shops. After doing a little research, I found that those items were originally used to take snuff, so they were able to claim that they had them for sale for that purpose. I never did see any snuff for sale at the head shop however.

Woodsman

In the late 60's some Head Shops sold snuff with incense flavorings(?) with names like "Coke Snuff".

Hiker007

I have never heard the term "head shop" before.

pipeman83

Head shop was the term used to describe a store that sold items used for marijuana use, such as bongs and glass pipes,etc.

motie2

@pipeman83 -- Well, c'mon, be fair: Head shops catered to the 60's hippie lifestyle and not exclusively to marihuana culture.

xDutchx

@pipeman83, Correct, but the distinction that I remember is that they claimed that their pipes were for tobacco use, and their coke items were for snuff use. If anyone made any verbal comments that would indicate they were planning to use said items for illegal purposes, they were always promptly asked to leave the store. I think it was that way, because that is the way the City Council preferred to make their sales and collect their taxes.

However, you would still have Sergeant Stedenko sitting down the street undercover taking notes.

motie2

@xDutchx -- 'Twas not that way in Cincinnati 1964-1973. Grass was illegal and very frowned upon by police and the City Fathers ("The Queen Conservative City"), but the head shops made no concessions. Everybody talked about grass and bongs and pipes, but the cops had not come up with paraphernalia charges back then.

xDutchx

@motie2, They just needed time to think didn't they? LoL

motie2

I taught my students that there was one solid reason not to smoke marihuana: the awful side effect:

"Smoking marihuana can cause your body to be imprisoned."

The subtext was: "It's illegal, dumbass. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

mfresa

A neighbor of mine is a roofer and gets stung by bees once in a while.  He says putting tobacco on the stings relieves the pain instantly.  Never heard of that one before...

PappyJoe

@mfresa - you must have missed my earlier post about that. It's something I learned in the late 50s or early 60s. We would get stung by something and an adult would take a cigarette apart, wet the tobacco and press it on the sting. Found out it would also work on jellyfish stings if they are too big. 

PappyJoe

More on the use of tobacco as medicine:

https://www.sott.net/article/280406-The-long-forgotten-healing-properties-of-tobacco