Tobacco Appreciation (What All Do You Use)

[olderthandirt]

I'd think that this could be considered pipe related. You most likely wouldn't be looking here if you weren't a pipe smoker eh?

What forms of tobacco do you enjoy?

The pipe is my foremost means of enjoying all that tobacco can be, but not the only means.
I also take a pinch or three of snuff off and on during each and every day and I always have a tin of Swedish snus available for times of need and smoke is not an option.

I even combine the three at times for a real sensory treat.
A healthy pinch of something dark and pungent like Fribourg & Treyer's Santo Domingo, a portion of General's Wintergreen under lip and a bowl of any VaPer all together will certainly awaken the senses!

So how about the rest of you?

[pipe_ninja]

I used to cheat with the Snus. I'm not familiar with it, so the only stuff I really tried was the somewhat okay Camel Snus. I would get stuck on the audit team at work when we would undergo days of regulatory inspections. 14-15 hour days, it gets a little hard to get one's nic fix in...snus filled that gap !!!

Now the biggest irony - I wrote the Tobacco Use Policy.

[olderthandirt]

"Now the biggest irony - I wrote the Tobacco Use Policy."
And a fine bit of policy I'm sure it was. Stilted in favor of use? (-:

The American brands of snus such as Camel and Marlboro are pure dreck in comparison to Swedish Snus.
Sadly the prices for all of the European brands pretty much doubled and then some when the last installment of the PACT Act went into effect.
Once my stash in the freezer is gone I'll prolly not be using Snus any longer. On the bright side I've enough to take me another year or so!

[pipe_ninja]

I gotta try the "real" snus at once. I knew the Camel / Marlboro snus is, well, garbage. And it's rather low in nicotine. It just served my purposes at the time...since it can be swallowed and well, since I wasn't supposed to be using it while working, I didn't need the spit cup, so it was easy to hide.

[olderthandirt]

I gotta try the "real" snus at once. ...

Here is a link to the General Snus website. Select the "Looking for Where to Buy" icon and enter your city/state.
I did so and 3 shops, Turkey Hill?, came up for Ephrata

[pipe_ninja]

Yeah that Turkey Hill just has the Camel Snus and chew.

[olderthandirt]

Well that blows.

Wanna get a good scare? Here are links to a couple of online snus vendors I've used in the past. Fill out a cart and see what the shipping charges end up at. SCARY!

http://www.northerner.com/index.php
http://www.snuscentral.org/

[pipe_ninja]

I was looking on snus.com and it didn't look to bad on shipping charges...little less than $14 for UPS ground.

[olderthandirt]

Interesting. Appears to be a mirror site or somesuch of Northerner.

[pipe_ninja]

It looks like a decent site...but alas, I need either another paying client or my state to give out up to date info on the UC Extension before I go on any spending spree.