My highschool had a smoking area for students, now you can't even smoke on the opposite side of the street.
The Aroma of the Shop
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if you like that smell. Wait till you open a huge nasal snuff order. That's a similar but different smell. It's amazing how often the mail person will comment on the smell and how they hope you keep ordering whatever it was you ordered. My point I would love to see what the smell in a tobacconist back when snuff was way more common, you know since it would be another layer to the already great smell.
Our house smells like this. It's the aroma of home. I can't even relate to people who don't smoke in their homes.
Bro. Snuff ain’t no joke. First time u try it, it’s gonna hit you like cocaine.
Must be nice! I told my wife I want to build a smoking lounge in the backyard. I got kids with asthma so I can't smoke inside anymore. But it's not just the smoke, it's the large amounts of fresh tobacco I think really adds to the aroma.
I ain't ever tried the kinda snuff you sniff. Ive seen it before, but I wouldnt even know where to get it.
Eh, I dunno. I’m glad I’ve got a good tobacconist here in Mikwaukee but I’d never want to own a shop, nor work in a tobacco processing plant. I love craft beer and worked at a local craft brewery for about a year. Yeah the free short pours were great to take home but after that experience I decided brewing beer wasn’t a hobby I even wanted to consider, much less make a career out of.
Things aren’t as shiny as they seem once you make it a job.
Things aren’t as shiny as they seem once you make it a job.
Amen to this....
Many a good hobby has been ruined by making a vocation of it.
It's certainly has the most intense buzz of a nicotine product I've tried. Especially the Indian white snuff (made with rustica and makes American Scotch snuffs look coarse ground).
I agree on several fronts. One don't smoke around the kids especially if they have asthma. Also you're right it's the quantities of tobacco just hanging around the area that contributes to that aroma.
Occasionally you can find a small selection in smoke shops, head shops, supermarkets, gas stations, and if that doesn't work online there is Mr Snuff or Toque snuff. I get mine mainly from Toque as they offer bespoke offerings as long as you order a huge bulk amount.
If you do try it remember just like a pipe technique matters a lot. It burns like crazy at first. And finding the right fit can take a while, which means if you do try it don't write it off just because one cut or scent doesn't agree with you. For me florals and incense scents are my friends and mid to fine ground agree with me as well.
So true. I love cooking hate cooking for a living.
This waS-NOT my experience. I opened my snuff, sniffed it, and immediately sneezed a map of African Deserts on the wall next to the kitchen table. I took another bigger sniff and sneezed the rest of Africa on the wall. Everytime I sniff this stuff, I just immediately sneeze it all out. I just think that my sinuses were programmed to prevent me from ever being a coke head.
I enjoy snuff from time to time. I have a decent little stash of it tucked away. I just wish it wasn't as messy as it is.
I gotta side with Cosmic on this one. Getting around any snuff is akin to taking a huge whiff of ground black pepper for me. I just sneeze my head off.
I had not thought about this being a built-in prevention for doing coke, but I'll take it as a plus.
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Here's the etymology (all of this, definition and etymology, from the OED):
And in re: snuff, if it causes you to sneeze, you're snorting it too quick/too deep. Just like learning to smoke a pipe, you need to ease into it. A light, light inhale, not a snort like you see people doing in films with a rolled up bill and a line of coke. It's a small pinch, either from the back of the hand, or from the "boxcar" created in the hollow of your thumbnail pressed up against your curled index finger.
Or you use an autoportioning tap box or a snuff bullet like these:
Or you use an autoportioning tap box or a snuff bullet like these:
I still have a little wooden snuff box in my rucksack, some still in it, that I have used on train journeys of over an hour's duration - can't recall the type, something No. 1 in a round blue container. Very handy stuff, snuff.And in re: snuff, if it causes you to sneeze, you're snorting it too quick/too deep. Just like learning to smoke a pipe, you need to ease into it. A light, light inhale, not a snort like you see people doing in films with a rolled up bill and a line of coke. It's a small pinch, either from the back of the hand, or from the "boxcar" created in the hollow of your thumbnail pressed up against your curled index finger.
Or you use an autoportioning tap box or a snuff bullet like these:
Blast, just checked and it's not there - mislaid. I did find my Geiger counter and a spare electric toothbrush, though.
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I remember the smell of tobacco shops back in the 1960’s and 1970’s… or even the smell emanating from the tobacco section at the local Woolworth’s or Snyder’s store. And rows of brightly colored tobacco cans lining the shelves. Self serve, cash and carry.
These days not so much. Every place is pretty much just a glass shop. The last real pipe shop closed down a couple years ago, Rich Lewis’ shop.
These days not so much. Every place is pretty much just a glass shop. The last real pipe shop closed down a couple years ago, Rich Lewis’ shop.
I'm intrigued, definitely need to find me someAnd in re: snuff, if it causes you to sneeze, you're snorting it too quick/too deep. Just like learning to smoke a pipe, you need to ease into it. A light, light inhale, not a snort like you see people doing in films with a rolled up bill and a line of coke. It's a small pinch, either from the back of the hand, or from the "boxcar" created in the hollow of your thumbnail pressed up against your curled index finger.
Or you use an autoportioning tap box or a snuff bullet like these: