SNUFF BY THE TON
NO FLU’ AMONG ENGLISH MAKERS,
Hundreds of tons of snuff are still being sent overseas from Great Britain every twelve months. In the last year of peace the quantity was 662 tons' but most of it was used for killing insects. Of the whole amount, six tons only was for human beings, and not all of that for sniffing. Much of it was in a moist form for applying between the gums and the cheek.
Gone are the days when the gallant, with a courtly bow, proffered snuff from a jewelled box. Today the snuffholder is of polished wood or papier mache, or more often the working man just carries it in a small tin in his waistcoat pocket.
The Canadian lumberjack still snuffs a lot; so do the Scandinavian population of Wisconsin and Minnesota and the Negroes of the South. The people of U.S.A, are, in fact, the world's greatest snuffers today. They sniff up 20,000 tons of it a year.
Thd claim that snuff is a germ killer is borne out by one of the biggest English manufacturers. They have been making it for more than a hundred years, and in all that time not one of their workers has ever had the 'flu.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 7
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210SNUFF BY THE TON Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 7
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