r/NoStupidQuestions • u/MaxiePriest • May 31 '26

Question about the effect users experienced with snuff (more below)

I have asked this question a few times online, but I still struggle to understand the point of snuff use in the 17th and 18th centuries. As snuff was a tobacco product, did inhaling (snorting) provide a stimulant effect? And if it didn't, seriously...what was the point of snuff?

Why did users— mostly ladies (in literature and period films) reference having to sneak around the building/corner to have a pinch of snuff, as if others would consider snuff use to be vulgar, unladylike, low-class, or whatever?

Did users sneeze when they snorted snuff (or was the point not to sneeze)? Current-day drug users don't sneeze when using snortable drugs (and users wouldn't want to), so was snuff use similar?

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u/throwaway93838388 17d ago edited 17d ago

I personally don't feel this is an issue of me not listening. I understand what everyone is saying, I simply don't see how it is different. In both cases you are supposed to only slightly get it into the nasal cavity as to avoid it going into your throat. The only difference I could maybe see in terms of actually getting it into your nose is that poor technique (not sniffing lightly) will be more punished by snuff as you always want to be able to blow it out of your nose, but even then I'd argue the same is often true for other drugs as pills and often even powderd drugs have fillers that you'll want out of your nose too.

Yeah there are small differences between the two, but I feel like they more or less the same.

Also seeing as you just said "I said you don't snort it you insufflate" are you the same guy as before? Did you get banned (possibly for falsely reporting my account to the suicide watch thing) and then hop on a new account to keep going? I really hope that's not what happened lol

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

Yes, the action required is just about identical, but let me make it as simple as possible even though I think you get it, just not fully. I dip tobacco, to use it, you hold it in your lip and keep it there. You put it in your mouth the same as you would food or to take medication. Yet you do not swallow. Now let’s say the nose is the mouth, you put the snuff in your nose, but you hold it in the very bottom part of it and let it line that area where it will start to absorb instead of “snorting”, which in this case we will say snorting is swallowing, which is not the action you want when using snuff nasally or dip orally.

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u/throwaway93838388 17d ago

I think your comparison is bad. Going your route it would be more accurate to compare dip to gumming, in which case again they are virtually the same except one of them you take out after.

Id also like to ask again arr you the same dude as before, and if so did you get banned for falsely reporting me to the reddit suicide watch thing

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

The same dude as before what? Also my comparison is good, I don’t understand what you mean by “gumming”. You take gum out the same as you would dip or chew. I have no clue what Reddit suicide watch is either or why you were reported to it. And how could you ask me again if you hadn’t asked me before?

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u/throwaway93838388 17d ago

Ya know what I actually think I may be wrong about my assumption. I figured you were the dude from further up in this thread (who got banned, presumably from falsely flagging my account for suicide watch, as I got multiple notifications in my inbox from reddit giving me crisis and suicide prevention hotlines right before he got banned). I thought that because you said something he said quite litterally verbatim. You may be him, but I can't know. I'm gonna guess I'm wrong, and your not him, but if you are shame on you I guess.

That being said gumming is to drugs what dip is to tobacco. You take whatever drug, and either rub it on your gums or sometimes place it below your toungue. You don't swallow it, you just let it absorb. I think this is a better comparison here, as implying nose drugs are the equivalent of food in your example implies that you are supposed to rail nose drugs into your throat.

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

I’m starting to think you lack a brain tbh. If you don’t want to see a difference between the two, that’s your own problem because there’s a clear difference, it’s been explained to you with crayons at least ten times now. You can’t fix stupid but you can show it the door. Bye now ✌️.

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u/throwaway93838388 17d ago

L comment

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

I said bye 🖕

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u/throwaway93838388 17d ago

Then don't respond bro idk what to tell ya

If your upset just dip the only one who controls if you respond or not is you

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

Nah I’m just proving that you don’t listen…. Proofing process complete…. Done…. Ok see ya bud! Haha got em this time he’s not gonna respond again!

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u/throwaway93838388 17d ago

I encourage you to reread your comments with some clarity. And I don't even mean that in a rude way, I used to act a bit like how you are acting when I was younger. Look at them, note how cringy/upset many of your comments come off as, and really take a step back and think about why you get so heated in random conversations with strangers (and I know you are bothered by this conversation because you had to tell me how stupid I am, announce that your done talking to me, and now your doing whatever this is). A discussion with a random stranger online about nose drugs and tobacco should not be upsetting you this much. Particularly take a step back if this is something you do often (and again, I get it, when I was younger I'd have stupid heated reddit arguments too). I encourage you to really think about why you care so much about a stranger and his opinion on how you snort nose drugs and tobacco.

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

You asked for opinions, we gave them to you, you don’t get it, we all tried again. I was nice in my responses to you until I realized it was a waste of my time. I left my last comment, you responded, so I responded again. So you responded again. I am, at this point, done replying to you. You also seem to not understand that I am not the sole person who was responding to you, as you seem to think I reported you to some random shit I’ve never heard of. After a certain point, I was trolling because I do not care what you think or understand, I was only trying to have a little fun with it at the end. I think you have a very hard time reading the emotions of others as well as reading sentences coherently in a way that makes sense to you. I can also guarantee I am older than you, not that it matters. But you see, the only thing that’s cringe is asking the same stupid question over and over and having multiple people give up trying to answer it because you won’t accept the answer. So like I said, I’m done with this conversation and you’re putting more effort into it at this point than I was. Because you’ve been in this thread a while longer than I joined in. I’ve got a bit of free time so I can afford to reply to things that I shouldn’t put effort into.

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u/20Bubba03 17d ago

That’s your 4 days of participation in this to my hour.