Snuff is enough
Snuff is enough
Snuff said
And this one’s known as Badger’s Armpit, for reasons which will become readily apparent. For the first-time user I’d recommend just the tiniest pinch, because it does tend to attack the mucal tissue, somewhat. See? No, you’ll have trouble for the next few minutes but the vision does return eventually. Now tell me, while you’re recovering, how does that one compare, say, to the Shrieking Owl, the Rancid Tart of Madeira, or Old Harry’s Original No. 7?
Well that was the sort of intro I’d been planning to write once I’d been on my snuff-sampling expedition to Smith’s Snuff Shop in Charing Cross Road. But the young man who ran the place wasn’t having it. ‘I’m sorry sir, it’s illegal for us to offer samples of any form of tobacco product.’ What? Since when? ‘Oh. Two or three years ago, at least.’
The other flaw in my plan, I soon discover, is that snuffs don’t have quite such exotic names. There’s Jockey Club and the vaguely mysterious-sounding SP, but mostly the names are just plain descriptive ones like English Rose, Cinnamon, Sandalwood, Almond and Tia Maria.
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September 28th, 2007 2:06amI have been taking snuff during the winter months for years. As someone who lectures for a living, I find that a burst of nicotine helps to clear the brain, and creates a useful pause during the verbal flow. It also irritates busy-bodies who don't know what you are sniffing, especially if using that runny-nose-period standby, Tranter's white menthol, non-tobacco snuff, which is available from their shop in Bath. Above all, although I have been taking snuff for about 30 years, I rarely do so during the summer, which just goes to show that, for me at least, nicotine is not addictive when taken through the nose.