Method 5 for taking snuff.

Wrap your index finger around the end of your thumb.
Tap snuff into the abyss formed by thumbnail and index finger, sniff.

Very good method if you have dirty hands or are standing out in the wind!

This method works best if your snuff is in a dispenser type container such
as those made by Pöschl.

Can someone take a picture how to snuff this way, I did not quite understood this instruction :P I am not very good in instructions and this is in english also and I am confused xD, can someone take a picture how to do it or video or something. :P
Thanks

Good idea! I will take some pictures tomorrow and post them here.

Pictures added to the first comment. I hope that helps a little to understand the instructions.

@ Tekid:

Sounds similar to the method number 5, right? It is really helpful if it is stormy outside!

4 is really good for dry and fine snuffs as it allows you to put the snuff in your nose rather than heavily sniffing it.

but using 4 is hard to do :P if I use containers like Poschl and like you sent. But if these small round containers with caps then you can put your finger in snuff and take from there. But with Poschl, I think is hard to get the snuff there so you do not drop anything :P

Oh, just discovered that the container received from you opens other way also, and I got my fingers in it and tried the 4th method, works fine :)

Dear friends,
I began to use nasal snuff two months ago, trying to use it to stop smoking. The results are really encouraging, because I've just dramatically reduced the number of cigarettes that I normally smoke every day. I usually use many snuff brands...especially english (McChrystals) and german (Poeschl), appreciating the differerences between these varieties. But using snuff isn't completely safe, as many medical experts remarked. And I'm often afraid of the risks related to a possible cancer in the mouth or in the throat. Up till now I tried every way you suggested to take snuff correctly. But I'm simply still unable to avoid mucus secretions or residual snuff in my throat/mouth !! My question is the following...Is there a sure way to keep/stop the snuff in the nose, avoiding this kind of problems that get me scared?? As I just wrote, up till now I tried every way to avoid them..smaller pinches, light inhaling, frequent nose blowing/cleaning and so on...but simply unsuccessly! I always find mucus secretions and residual snuff in my throat, after every pinch...Let's be honest with ourselves...are these problems pratctically INEVITABLE, or is there a SURE way to take snuff, avoiding them COMPLETELY?? Please, help me with your suggestions...because I just became a "snuff-maniac", I verified its efficiency to reduce smoking and I would be very sorry to be forced to give up this way to appreciate tobacco, because of my fears of a possible larynx cancer...Thanks a lot in advance for your suggestions and...sorry for the bad quality of my english (!!) I'm italian speaking...

I am not sure where the evidence of risk is. I read the article that Roderick referenced a while ago in his exchange with Namrata, but if my memory serves me correctly, the study was done on snus and oral tobacco not nasal snuff; you can't project the results of that study to nasal snuff because at the very least, the ingredients are different, and while some tobacco juice is swallowed with snuff, it is nowhere near what it is with snus.

From what I have read (a lot) the risks are akin to say butter. If you eat enough butter you will die. Does that make it risky to spread it on your toast? Hardly.

Wiki has this to say:

'The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties.'

Now it could be that the leaf itself ground into a powder has some carcinogenic effect, but show me the evidence. Who knows, maybe the pesticides they spray on tobacco plant leave a residue which is carcinogenic?

I am open to persuasion...
Mr.Snuff

At worse it may cause harm and may be carcinogenic. Where as cigars pipes cigerattes definately are carcinogenic and given a long enough time arc will kill you.

I don't know of any way to totally prevent "mucus secretions" with snuff. But mentholated snuffs such as your preferred McCrystals or Poschl will cause more secretion than a non mentholated snuff.

As far as using a saline spray with your snuff, I would not suggest this if your trying to minimize the drainage into the throat. The added moisture from the spray will make it easier for the snuff to drain back into the throat.

I feel that the the health benefit you will have if you quit smoking will out way any health concerns from snuff use. I really do not think there is a big enough health concern with the small amount of snuff that does make it into the back of the throat to really worry about. It is a very small amount. If you are concerned with this "drainage" then you can just blow your nose as you feel it happening. The biggest health concern I could see worrying over would be a polyp in the nasal canal.

This next paragraph was done by the Department of Otolaryngology at the Philipps University in Germany.

With cigarette smoking declining in the modern world, the tobacco industry has to look for other products that can keep the old customers and attract new ones. Different forms of smokeless tobacco are currently massively promoted and are gaining in importance. Dry nasal snuff--the oldest known form of tobacco in Europe--is one of them. The health risks associated with it are different to those attributed to smoking and oral wet snuff. The nicotine contained leads to dependency. Its resorption rate is similar to that of smoking, so it could be seen as an adequate substitutional therapy. The risk for cardiovascular diseases is lower, compared to that for smokers. Chronic abuse leads to morphological and functional changes in the nasal mucosa. Although it contains substances that are potentially carcinogenic, at present, there is no firm evidence, relating the use of nasal snuff to a higher incidence of head and neck or other malignancies.

This one is from the American Buddhist Society. Dr Michael Russell, father of tobacco addiction research:

"Snuff could save more lives and avoid more ill-health than any other preventive measure likely to be available to developed nations well into the 21st century". "Switching from cigarettes to snuff could have enormous health benefits". Snuffing has two major advantages.. Firstly there are no products of combustion such as tar, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen. Secondly it cannot be inhaled into the lungs, which eliminates any risk of lung cancer.

This report is from the Sheffield Exchange.

Because snuff is becoming so popular, many have questioned its health issues. Like any tobacco product there is a risk, but in 261 years of snuff making, Wilsons & Company has yet to have a single health case filed against them. According to Dr. Rodu, a leading pathologist studying cancer and tobacco, it’s the burning and inhaling of tobacco that creates most carcinogens. Many specialists feel that, for health reasons, if you are going to use tobacco, you are better off with a smokeless tobacco, like nasal snuff.

As far as snuff use, I strongly believe you are at higher risk of health problems by drinking soda or cola (Pepsi, Coke, etc), eating fried food, breathing the air of a big city, breathing the air on a highway, everyday molds we breathe, eating processed foods, alcohol consumption, etc.

I tried looking it up but couldn't find.
Why is the snuff of the Bantu Tribes so carcinogenic?

and I've known of non-tobacco user getting nasal cancer. So that doesn't even seem like a likely cause for this woman to have had cancer.

Okay I made a short video taking snuff from tin for starters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3BOdgBkOtw

I have.