SNUFF TAKING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 8

SNUFF TAKING

STILL A HABIT WITH SOME PEOPLE

So very seldom is anyone seen taking a pinch of snuff that it would almost seem that one of the most popular habits of Georgian and early Victorian days is a thing of the past. It was, therefore, a cause of considerable surprise when a city tobacconist ixhibite l to the view of a dominion reporter a dainty little solid silver snuffbox.

"But do people snull nowadays?” asked the pressman.

“Almost as many snuff as sniff,” replied the tobacconist. “You’d be surprised! At present I am selling between six and seven pounds a mouth —not all to men either A good number of ladies are among my customers, and don’t they growl when I run out of stock 1 I tell you they don’t like to be without it. It's curious, you know, how the habit of offering a friend » pinch ‘of snull had died out. See this snuff horn! Less than a hundred years ago there was scarcely a gentleman in Europe who did not carry one of these with a dainty bejewelled box for State occasions and parties Now you never see the pinch offered—though there are still plenty of snuff-takers.”