Snus

Just tried some American snus. Really messed me up in a bad way. Threw up.

sry 2 hear that bro

skoal bandits ftw

Can you explain what Snus are? I see the advertisements everywhere but I don't think I understand what it is aside from some kind of chewing tobacco?

you don't chew it, you just shove it in your gum and wait for it to make you feel ill

my friend sent me some but I'm a little scared to try it

yeah got a pack of this ages ago as part of some promo deal (back when camel reps still haunted bars, giving away freebies) and oof. one and done.

back when camel reps still haunted bars, giving away freebies

i.e. yesterday

go to college bars if u wanna find camel reps, they love those young folks

"back when i still haunted bars, waiting for camel reps to give away freebies"

my norwegian co-worker loooooves this shit

Yeah, the membranes of your mouth are capable of absorbing the nicotine directly into your bloodstream. The reason you are supposed to poke it under your lip is to lessen the effect on your salivary glands.

Unlike chewing tobacco, snus is powdery; it's basically the same thing as snuff that folks used to carry in snuff boxes and inhale up their noses. If it gets into your main mouth cavity, you'll end up salivating like a ghoul and swallowing it or spitting it out, or both. At least chewing tobacco is in big enough shreds you can manage not to swallow it if you're careful.

As for making you sick... yes. Sick like a dog. If it weren't addictive no one, but NO ONE would ever come within a mile of snus.

Every time I see that word I'm mystified by the absence of an umlaut. It just feels so incomplete without one! This is probably just the result of years of Neubauten fandom; when you have alt-0252, everything looks like a...where was I going with this, I don't know

You snus you lose, obviously.

when i lived in iceland a while back (when it was getting big in northern europe again) someone gave me some at a party and it made me feel so ill i had to go home

also: very, very useless as a tool with which to quit smoking

seems pointless to me. I like snuff, though... the kind you inhale (in the US sometimes chewing tobacco is called snuff) -- a little pinch and you get a nicotine high like you're a teenager again!

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This shit seems pretty gross. I knew a guy who was buying it off the internet (before it started hitting gas stations c/o Camel) to help him "quit smoking." I don't get how subbing one tobacco for another constitutes quitting anything, but I am an unpleasant pedant.

This thread has had the weird side effect of making me crave some Big League Chew tho

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You snus you lose, obviously.

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Someone at a party the other night was talking about having tried this, and said the same thing about getting sick from it. I don't know that I would -- I roll my own unfiltered cigs as it is, so my tolerance/addiction to nicotine is probably in the upper range. My problem with it is that it's fucking nasty.

I quit smoking almost two years ago with the aid of snus, where gum and patches failed. Its a harm reduction move, but as I was only able to complete college once I discovered the nerve calming benefits of nicotene, I've no interest in becoming nicotene free. I still use two or three 8mg portions daily (Catch Eucalyptus, Skruff Original White, Gottlandsnus Flader, and Skruff Transbar are my faves). I've never had any problems becoming sick, but I never used los (loose) snus, only portion, and have never used the stark (strong) snus that has become popular of late.

I've tried all three varieties of Camel snus that my nephew had accumulated. All are sickly sweet and foul.

(Catch Eucalyptus, Skruff Original White, Gottlandsnus Flader, and Skruff Transbar are my faves).

I always felt the "epic" light saber battle between Skruff Transbar and Anakin Skywalker in Attack Of The Clones was kind of half-assed.

Skruf, incidentally, is a metrosexual upstart brand about a decade old with modernist packaging, cool white with Helvetica font. Their basic flavor is mild with bergamot, reminiscent of Earl Grey tea. Transbar adds Cranberry.

Snu users:

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Wait, that's snu-snu.

i met a german in hamburg who had licorice snus from norway that was nice. tried the shit the camel reps passed out in US bars and it sucked. surprised it makes so many ppl sick tho. cigarettes make me naseous, but even 2-3 camel snus at a time didn't give me so much as a buzz

last summer my friends and me we were always talking abt snus, got it free at a bar, no one one ever tried it

i mean SNUS thats what youre naming this disgusting product, no one will be liking it

i think i tried to pay someone to try the snus, and they were drunk, and still they would have nothing to do w/it

snus

wonder what will happen if i tweet 'snus'

one letter away from anus

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fun way to spend your night: reread the thread replacing snu with anus

snoooze

drup a snus

I got some snus about a year ago...but I never tried it, because I was waiting for the right opportunity. well last night my house got broken into, and the thieves took my backpack, in which the container of snus was. I don't know if I'm going to get another container. so I guess the moral of this story is... snus it or lose it.

I realized today that perhaps the reason I became sick from it was because I was constantly moving it around in my mouth, trying to find the right position under my lip somewhere. So yeah, there was probably a lot of saliva being produced and I distinctly remembering swallowing and tasting it at least two or three times. Of course the two slices of pizza with mushrooms I had immediately beforehand probably didn't help.

I'm thinking next time I will be sure to spit (even though the claim is, you don't have to).

And the night before I managed to eat several chicken wings with it packed away under my upper lip before it finally became entangled with a juicy bit of wing and ranch dressing in my mouth, at which point I had to use three napkins to spit everything out. In front of my boss no less...

snus it or lose it.

B)

on vacation I was staying with a friend who was really into snus, to the point of buying the imported legit northern european ones, and I tried one. not bad!

if snus is flavored to make it palatable, why not just suck on a non-addictive Life Saver instead?

Wait is this like dipping? What's the tobacco you sniff called?

i got hooked on the general mint, which was the only brand available in stores in canada. when it first launched there were stores using the neat little fridge that swedish match distributed to them. then the fridges disappeared and the mint flavor disappeared and then there was just the plain general version available. now i can't find it and i'm back to copenhagen southern blend and wintergreen.

benefit of snus is: quite inexpensive, pleasant flavor, far less likely to cause any mouth or gut issues, can absorb nicotine while at work.

smokeless

copenhagen is 30 a tin in canada. 30 pack tins of snus were 15. i might start ordering it online.

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the way it was explained to me is that snus never really should feel wet, you just tuck it in the top of your mouth and if it feels like it's going to drip you throw it away

so the flavor is more of an after-effect, not incredibly noticeable

you're not really sucking on anything, but I am sure a market for nicotine-enhanced lifesavers could exist

so what I'm getting here is that the market for snus mainly exists among those who are already addicted to nicotine, but cannot always smoke in order to satisfy their addiction.

it stays dryish if left alone in your upper lip. unlike dip or chew, it doesn't stimulate an intense salivary action.

the nicotine levels in snus can be low enough that it's hard to use it to replace cigarettes. in the past, i've accidentally broken my nicotine addiction using snus, especially the lighter general-brand pouches.

I have no nicotine addiction, probably have a pack every two years from the few times I'm around smokers and also having a couple beers, had a single snus pouch last week

I think the tobacco industry would be dead in the water without people having addictions, but occasional smokers or consumers are a much larger market than acknowledged. I could see using such a thing once or twice a week.