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Ahi Ka

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Feb 25, 2020
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Aotearoa (New Zealand)
While one can no longer legally import pipe tobacco to NZ without going through the permit process, snuff can still be sent here in the mail. Cigars, snus and chewing tobacco were also exempt to the legislation changes involving imports and permits.
 
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andrew

Lifer
Feb 13, 2013
3,148
657
Winnipeg, Canada
Hi @gawithhoggarth

Does Gawith make snuff? I assumed the ones with the name and the picture of Samuel Gawith were made by Gawith?

Yes gawith still makes snuff. The Samuel gawith and gawith hoggarth are made in the same factory now. It's excellent, my favourite out of any snuff I've tried. It's the base tobacco they use is excellent. Just the gawith original isn't made by them and has nothing to do with them
 

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Lifer
Nov 14, 2020
5,238
30,915
Hawaii
Yes gawith still makes snuff. The Samuel gawith and gawith hoggarth are made in the same factory now. It's excellent, my favourite out of any snuff I've tried. It's the base tobacco they use is excellent. Just the gawith original isn't made by them and has nothing to do with them

Thanks, by the way your signature is missing, just a ? mark…🧐
 

anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
17,162
32,225
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In the semi-rural NorthEastern USA
You’re right on all counts. Pipe smokers seem to take a dark pride in the gallows feel, of being present in real tobacco’s final days, but it’s just not true.
And interestingly it's got it's ups and downs both in form and over all. I mean like what's the most popular form to take it in changes with time and place and also just how many people take and use tobacco.
People have been smoking and snuffing for over 10,000 years (Iain Gately’s history of tobacco recounts that pipe and snuff paraphernalia were found which formulated this finding). It’s not going to stop.
I've read some very scientific stuff that was pretty confident that a certain percent of the population is always going to use it and that for everyone else it's pretty conditional.
Sure, the laws are crazy but that was true in various times past and it’s always an ebb and flow kind of thing. It’s also a war-friendly drug
So true. Another thing I was reading was about the way people looked at cigs. Even back in the earlier days they were seen as less healthy then other tobaccos and only really started to be seen as not gross and a menace to be stopped (with a lot more effort and vigor then what people are complaining about now) when W.W.1 rolled out. Basically who cares if something kills a person when they're 70 or 80 if you're making them go into the trenches. Then interestingly it went from something for children and woman to something manly when all the veterans came back smoking cigs. Of course it's more complicated then that, but we're just a bunch of oddball guys chatting about strange guy things.
and seeing as how it’s looking WWIII-ey out there, I think it’ll make a natural comeback in coming decades, if not years.
If it happens I'll be side eyeing chesterfields they seem like the kind of cigarette that start a world war just to maintain some relevance. (just kidding about that).
 
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anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
17,162
32,225
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In the semi-rural NorthEastern USA
While one can no longer legally import pipe tobacco to NZ without going through the permit process, snuff can still be sent here in the mail. Cigars, snus and chewing tobacco were also exempt to the legislation changes involving imports and permits.
probably cause of those amazing budget brands that are popular with country lawyers over here.
 
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Zamora

Lifer
Mar 15, 2023
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2,832
Olympia, Washington
If you want that old timey limited tobacco selection feel, just come north of the border! 😂

You can spend $55 for 50grams of Borkum Riff. If you’re lucky enough to have a better variety around you, you can splurge on $75 Capstan or one of 5/6 varieties of Cornell and Deihl.

You guys still live in the land of pipe tobacco milk and honey! When you’re feeling blue that Sutliff and MacBaren are closing down, just think to yourself - at least I’m not a pipe smoker living in Canada. Lol.

Now that I’ve completely depressed myself, I’m going to go and cry myself to sleep now 😂.
Yeah I always remind myself that Canucks have it much worse and Aussies and Kiwis worse still.
Harrumph! It is quite a bit harder to find Sir Walter Raleigh and Prince Albert these days, so us “codgers” are feeling the pinch too.

(Note…. the rancor is meant tongue-in-cheek…. but it is sadly reality too…. drugstore brands are definitely harder to get….. at least in my region.)
Very true I've never seen Prince Albert in person and SWR is only at two different places near me that I'm aware of ditto for Half & Half. Captain Black and Borkum Riff are pretty easy to find in my area.