Snuffing tobacco

January 6, 2010

Snuffing tobacco (snuff) - tobacco ground in thin dust with aromatizes additions.

Snuff history

First mentions of snuff are met in American literature in connection with Indians that sniffed tobacco. Monk Raymon Payne in 1493 has first described snuff consumption when Columbus has visited America for second time. In 1561 French ambassador in Portugal Jean Nicot has sent a box of snuff to Catherine Medici as a migraine medicine. Afterwards she became regular snuff-taker. Among famous fans of this potion - Napoleon and French king Luis XIII.

Snuffing tobacco today.

Diversity of aromas (from orange and vanilla to lavender and mint) allows each time choose something new. Snuffing tobacco consumption is spread in Germany, USA, France, Poland and Czech Republic. To snuff tobacco is less harmful than to smoke cigarettes, pipe or hookah, because of the same reasons as "sucking tobacco" snus: tobacco is not subject to burning what means that combustion products which contain carcinogens don't enter in organism.

Besides snuffing tobacco consumption revives spirits and improves breathing.

Snuff is tobacco from the same family as snus, is manufactured of so called "dark" leaf. Snuffing tobacco differs in brand and aroma. Each country has its own brands: in Germany Bernard Brothers, Lotzbeck and Poschl, in France - Seita, in USA - Copenhagen and Carett snuff, in Great Britain - Black Rappee.

Manufacturers market snuff (and close relative "sucking snus") as alternative to traditional smoking.