ok i have been thinking about this as more and more people give up smoking and move onto snuff will the goverment start to wack a high tax on it like they do cigs ! The goverment loose out when we give up and move onto snuff so what does everyone think will happen as we all know our goverment are not silly and when sales of snuff goes up i think so will the price ! I hope im wrong but think it would be a great topic to discuss here . . . Going from a post here i read about the sudden volume of new members here lately it seems its becoming more popular and thus so is sales of snuff and less sales of cigs . Discuss away do you think im right or wrong in this !

yes i see your point i guess our only arguement is what is the cost of making cigs to making snuff surely snuff is cheaper to make ?

Well I know the Welsh miners use to use it maybe that is why it was never taxed... Just a thought cause the government would benefit from mining so maybe it lower cause of the miners needs.

This is the reason I am stocking up because once Comrade Brown gets it into his head to tax it surely it will be taxed. Snuff and air are two things that aren't taxed in this damn country, one has to wonder how long this will remain so.

Stefan

also maybe due to the stigma behind snuff "only used by old people " which is so totaly untrue unless im classed as old at 32 ! Now what also annoys me is this , i was walking with my children in a park when i took a pinch . Now a family of 4 walked passed and i over heard them saying "that is so discustgng taking drugs in front of his children "its a shame people think of that first when they say you do it ! Years ago this would have never even turned a head ! Try doing it in a nightclub and see what reaction you will get glad i dont go to nightclubs ! Now getting back to the point , maybe its not taxed to give older people a break god knows its hard enough for them as it is or is it the guilt of labour closing the coal mines ! ! I have read most of the coal miners used snuff to clear their nose , either way i can see a future were you can take snuff anywere again with out people giving it a second thought ! Which also may unfortunately mean drug users find it easyer as well !

I remember reading somewhere that British tax on snuff was dropped around 1978 because it was a safer alternative to ciggies.

so looks like as a newbie i should start stocking up but the only prob is on which type i have only tried a few i have now got used to the apricot one which is weird i did not think i liked very much but now having used it a bit i love it is this normal ? Im actualy looking forward to vanilla so much it should be here in a day or two ! I wonder if the tax will be as high as it is on cigs

In Danmark nasal snuff is virtually unknown today! A few tobacconists will stock some awful mentholized stuff, (to make sure that no one begins taking snuff?) but snus is becoming more popular in accordance with the new smoking ban. I buy all my snuff online from England, and the price is still very reasonable. Snuff is the most expensive kind of tobacco to produce, and no doubt if smokers in greater numbers begin to switch to snuff, the politically correct EU commission will certainly try to kill it off. Several scientific reports from Sweden, New Zealand a o have been appropriately ignored by the commissionares since by philosophy tobacco HAS to be "bad", and they do all they can to promote their horrible, chemical, Nicorette chewing gum as the only alternative to smoking - which is of course not an alternative for us who love tobacco. It's like changing a pint of fresh Weiss bier vom fass for a tin-canned lukewarm diet coke!

Although with some concerted action by snuffers and manufacturers there could be some hope, after all Poschl managed to get the warning re-worded.