what is "snuff"?

[Jack Haney]

When I was a student at Oxford, learned to take snuff. A small pinch (it
comes in various pulvers and scents) is placed in the anatomical snuff box
of the left hand and it is inhaled, one nostril at a time. Snuff could be
purchased from any tobacconist and I am sure it is still available. It was
passed around after dessert but before the port at an Oxford high table
when last I was doing some teaching there and thus partaking of high
table. I am also sure that many men (fewer women) still use it. Freibourg
and Treyor was the preferred purveyor in my day.

The so-called snuff or smokeless tobacco used by westerners two
generations ago (and by baseball pitchers) has nothing in common with true
snuff and it cannot be inhaled. I think westerners call it "dip" now.



On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Zenon M. Feszczak wrote:

> The snuff market collapsed after the invention of smog.
> Smog is distributed as freeware, and offers the same health benefits and
> hedonistic pleasures.
>
> Na vse dobre,
>
> Zenon M. Feszczak
> Slavophile
> University of Pencilvania
>