So here's the snuff order for this month: 1x Sir Walter Scott's "Mull of Oa" - 50g 1x Wilson's "Rose of Sharrow" - 25g 1x FUBAR "Toasted" - 25g 1x FUBAR "Fugazi Black Joe" - 30g Yes, I'm looking into nasal snuff as a "Plan B" as the American FDA mulls proposed regulations that would treat vaping exactly like smoking -- regulations which, to my mind, are stupid and will only keep smokers addicted to tobacco cigarettes. Meanwhile, there is one last "frontier" solution to keep smokers away from the coffin nails and, interestingly, this solution started with the European aristocracy. It's also quite satisfying and very flavorful.
Did you see me list prices or links? As I said, I tried multiple times to post this thread in the Green Room, and it just wouldn't appear. If a mod would move this thread to the Green Room, that'd be fantastic.
The green room doesn't care for you? Why am I not surprised? Anyway, I thought snuff had gone the way of the dinosaurs. Does the FDA have no interest?
They only have interest in two things: 1. Keeping Americans from enjoying something that the neo-Puritans frown upon, and 2. Either preventing or sucking dry any competition to their Big Pharma sugar-daddies.
There are other vapers on the board, yes. And like I said, I tried multiple times to get this into the Green Room, but there's a glitch in there or something and it didn't post up in there. I'd appreciate it if people could treat this thread as though GR rules are in effect in this thread, and please, whoever is able, could somebody move it to the GR?
Me too, I want to see more content like this in the Green Room. We need to get Larry's beer thread moved in here at some point, too.
This has got me curious, actually; I know I'm not the only vaper on the board; am I really the only one on Wrodfrodge who uses nasal snuff? I know we've got some chaps on the board; any of you partake of the pinch?
My great grandmother used to use the stuff when I was a very small child. I remember walking with her to the corner store to buy it when I'd stay with her. I haven't seen a can in probably 30+ years.
It's really not at all common in the U.S. I know of exactly one brand that you can get at any retail outlet, and this is rare, but apparently it's called Garrett and is still extremely hard to come by. I get mine from www.mrsnuff.com, and they have a truly awesome selection.
The actual act of snufftaking, by the way, is also something that requires quite a bit of finesse. There are basically two ways to take snuff that I'm familiar with: You can take snuff from a small device called a "snuff bullet", or you can take a pinch manually. Now, there are a bunch of ways to do it manually, although the way I've found that works best for me is to simply pinch a small amount between my thumb and my "walking away finger" as an older English gent described it, then hold the pinch of snuff up to the nostril and inhale sharply but lightly. This will draw the fine ground grains of tobacco into the nostril, where they'll settle in nice 'n' comfy. The other way to do it is with a small device called a snuff "bullet." A snuff "bullet" consists of a cylinder, made of either metal or something else, and if it's "something else" it's usually acrylic. Threaded onto that cylinder, there's a sort of a valve with a vertical flange to indicate when it's right-side-up or up-side-down, as well as a teeeeeeny tiny little "scoop" on its interior axle into which the snuff settles. So what you do with a bullet is, you rotate the main body until it's up-side-down, while keeping the valve straight right-side-up, the whole time. Then you tap the "bottom" of the main body a few times, to cause snuff to fall into the little scoop in the valve part. Right? Keeping up? Okay, then. Then you rotate the main body of the bullet back to a right-side-up position, lift the bullet to your nostril (there's an open part at the top of it) and inhale lightly but sharply from the open end of the bullet. Repeat the process for the other nostril. There y'are.
Might be a good idea, since there has been scant research on vaping vs. traditional smoking. Some studies have shown that, depending on the liquid used, e-cigarettes may even cause more harm than traditional cigarettes. In any case, I can't help but think that "vaping" is simply a way for nicotine addicts to try to get around anti-smoking laws.
That is absolutely unsubstantiated. And what's wrong with that? If vaping is safer for its users and for third parties -- and it is -- then anti-smoking restrictions absolutely should not apply to vaping. Vaping is safe, not only for third parties but for direct users. The only reason to restrict it the way tobacco cigarettes are restricted is to clamp down on the image of the "rebel." This really does tell us what government forces have opposed from the very beginning. They never gave a shit about your health, or anybody else's. They just wanted to take your money, and they wanted to sap your strength to prevent you from falling in with peopl who would resist their theft.
I don't but my friend is a vaper, he mixes his own juice, he can make any flavor you want. And as someone with COPD, his vaping does not bother me at all.
Oh, I have no doubt whatsoever that that's the point. The nannies frown on something, and they would rather people die than enjoy that thing. And that isn't new, either. Without wanting to tell stories out of school, I've read in multiple places that, during Prohibition, government actually poisoned alcohol to "discourage" people from drinking.
