My purpose is not to change anyone's opinions concerning snuff. My only purpose is to determine whether anyone thinks snuff is harmless, yes or no. Thanks everyone. This question is inspired by a discussion I recently had with someone. He supposes that "people think snuff is harmless". Do you?
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But maybe im wrong
Alcohol is an excellent parallel. It can be extremely addictive, and for many people it is. Others can pick it up and put it down.
To speak as if one understands someone else's contrary idiosyncratic experience with a substance rubs me the wrong way. My anxiety got worse over the winter so I stopped alcohol, caffeine and tobacco. I sleep in a room that houses 50 pounds of tobacco, 10 of snuff, and a few hundred stogies. I wish I felt better and could partake like I used to on occasion but it just doesn't appeal to me. Stopping caffeine yielded a headache for three days. Nothing else really happened except less exacerbation of anxiety since I wasn't chronically raising adrenaline and cortisol.
We need to get real about how individual, circumstantial, epigenetic, and environmentally influenced a person's relationship with substances can be, and not project our own experiences on others. I would never decree tobacco non addictive based solely on my experience. But it's almost humorous to be oft labeled an addict in denial giving my experiences. And likewise, people around us consume addictive substances all the time with various outcomes. Like alcohol. It's a wild world out there.
As far as tobacco goes, I believe snuff is less harmful than many other methods of consumption. In fact, I believe that non-combusted tobacco- smokeless- is much less dangerous than the public opinion seems to think. Is it harmless? No. It would be foolish to suggest otherwise. But it's a hell of a lot less harmful than cigarettes.