Is Snuff Safer than Cigarettes?

“People smoke for the nicotine - but it's not the nicotine, it's the tar and toxic gases that kill them.”

Smoking is the nation's single greatest cause of disease and death. If you smoke your tobacco, perhaps it is time to consider switching to snuff.

Snuff allows you to experience nicotine without the potentially lethal effects of the tar and toxic gases contained in cigarettes. And you can enjoy it without risking the health and comfort of those around you too – there is no such thing as second-hand snuff.

“Switching from cigarettes to snuff could have enormous health benefits. Although some problems could arise from continued absorption of nicotine and local nasal irritation in heavy users, the absence of tar and gases such as carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and many other toxic combustion products, would virtually eliminate smoking-related cancer, bronchitis, and possibly heart disease. Also, snuff does not contaminate the atmosphere for non-users. Our findings suggest that a new age for snuff is a feasible alternative to cigarette smoking. Snuff could save more lives and avoid more ill-health than any other preventive measure likely to be available to developed nations well into the 21st century.”

Lancet.1980 Mar 1;1(8166):474-5.; (UK Medical Journal) Click here for the full article.

Another study conducted by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Greiser, Director of the Bremer Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, in Germany concluded that "snuff on its own does not pose a cancer risk". To see the full article, click here.

Having said that, in the United States there has been very little study of long-term use of, specifically, nasal snuff. However, the Surgeon General of the United States has been the nation's leading spokesperson on matters of public health since 1871. A report on smokeless tobacco product use and health was published in 1986. For more information on the Surgeon General reports related to tobacco use, please visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) To access all Surgeon General reports, please visit the National Library of Medicine website and click on the full list of reports.

We encourage you to do your own research for nasal snuff studies. We believe that Nasal Snuff has a place in society in harm-reduction strategies. It has been used for centuries in Europe with no reliable reported associated cancers. However, in the absence of reliable US studies, we categorically do not make any claims that nasal snuff is a safe alternative to cigarettes.

Nasal snuff is a tobacco product and it does contain nicotine. Nicotine is addictive. If you are not addicted to nicotine, you should not use nasal snuff, or any other form of tobacco.