As tobacco use restrictions get stricter, consumers are looking for new ways to get a nicotine fix, and the popularity of some items, including inhaled snuff, is rising. mhtwrnyqp4
It's fairly common knowledge throughout the convenience store industry that as anti-smoking laws become commonplace, smokers will seek other ways to scratch their itch for nicotine.
At CSNews Tobacco Roundtable, held in May concurrently with the Tobacco Plus Expo, attendees named the many products they see smokes trying out -- snus and other pouch products were deemed entry-points, while moist snuff was not far behind.
These products are not the only ones available for tobacco consumers to use when satiating their addiction. According to a report in Wired magazine, dry snuff -- made from tobacco leaves that have been ground into a fine powder -- s making a resurgence as a new generation of hipsters trade lungs full of smoke for a nose full of snuff.
Modern snuff comes in a variety of flavors, and is used by sniffing the product quickly into the nostrils, where it produces a burn — and a nicotine buzz, the report stated. According to a Federal Trade Commission report cited by the magazine, roughly 20 million individual packages of dry snuff were sold in the U.S. in 2005.
“For most, snuff is an alternative to smoking,” Alexander Schardt, a snuff lover from Hamburg, Germany, who runs the popular Snuffhouse.org discussion board, said in the report. “People recognize cigarette smoking is unhealthy, and you can’t do it at work or a lot of other places.”
Snuff is also cheaper than cigarettes. Dry snuff costs between $2 and $5 for a pocket-size container of about seven grams, and one tin can last a regular user several weeks, according to the report.
Innovative retailers looking for the next trend may see opportunity in this niche tobacco product, especially in an environment where smokers find themselves increasingly ostracized for their habit in public places.
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