what is "snuff"?

[Steve Seegmiller]

At 03:00 PM 4/17/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>What exactly is snuff, as is often referenced in Gogol's "The Nose"?  I
>know this question is coming on Monday when my kids and I start discussing
>this, and I realized I don't really know!
>
>Devin / Divan
>
>Devin P Browne
>dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>

Snuff is a sort of powdered form of tobacco that was inhaled through the
nose (really!). It was quite popular in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Steve Seegmiller
Linguistics Department
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
U.S.A.
e-mail: seegmillerm at alpha.montclair.edu