Snuff – Have a Bit Up!
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Some people chew it, some people smoke it, but no-one seems to sniff tobacco anymore.
In our local pub (very oldy worldy CAMRA type), there’s a rack by the door filled with little metal pots. They have funny flavours written in old school lettering on the lids. This is snuff and you won’t find many pubs where the landlord encourages you to “have a bit up”. The snuff in our pub wasn’t put there because of the smoking ban. It has been there since time immemorial. What possesses people to sniff tobacco products?
The first time I encountered snuff, I thought it was heroin. For some reason I had been invited along to Christmas drinks at a Catholic Chaplaincy in Cambridge and the priest had a small amount of brown powder on his hand which he then sniffed up. Despite the bad reputation of the Catholic Church, I thought this was going a bit far until my friend explained that it wasn’t class A but a different form of tobacco. Nobody seems to use it anymore (not that we would encourage tobacco use) but it seems strange how the fashions change. Another anachronism is short cigarettes – for those quick breaks between dances!
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