In terms of quality standards, which country produces the highest grade snuff?

[Sweet-N-Salty]

American tobacco is probably in bed with Monsanto. Asian tobacco (ie Chinese / Indian) I'm guessing is probably "contaminated" with more undesirable environmental pollutants than other regions. Not sure about British or German sources of leaf for snuff... keep in mind I have no factual information in front of me concerning the first two, just gut feeling. Anyone want to throw in their two cents?

[Premium Parrots]

[halocog]

Lolwut?

But to your question: I'm not exactly qualified to answer, but I think the blend has a lot to do with the quality of the snuff.

[Crow]

Iceland

[lxskllr]

I have full confidence in anything from Europe or UK. I use the occasional Indian snuff, but I don't fully trust it. I won't put anything from China in or on my body. I trust American tobacco, but don't completely trust the processing. I use Americans, but I wouldn't feel good about doing it full time. All are my opinion, and based on little fact.

[Nuusku]

Crow is experiencing a Iceland phase ;D

[Sweet-N-Salty]

am I to assume from the picture that what you're trying to tell me is who cares it's all going to kill me?

edit: funny pic btw

[Crow]

Crow is experiencing a Iceland phase ;D

First, my systir and niece came to visit. Then my uncle, aunt, and one of my cousins came shortly after... They brought a wide assortment of various Icelandic goodies...............One of which is................Sweet Nefty!

[Snusdog]

am I to assume from the picture that what you're trying to tell me is who cares it's all going to kill me?

Probably best not to think a whole lot about it

Whenever I see something like that and wonder............"what the hell does that mean"

I remind myself.............knowing is almost always worse

By the way………..welcome to the forum

I think the answer to your question is a bit more complex. A reputable company working under more stringent quality controls (both Governmental-- as in Sweden.........as well as internal controls-- GN, Gotlands, Swedish Match) will have set buyers or their own growers that must meet their specifications regardless of where they are located.

On the other hand, places like India where controls tend to be more lenient or companies that use a lot of non-descript fillers will probably be less discriminating in their leaf selection or the growers who produced it

[Skell18]

British clearly

[spirit72]

I'm really partial to English and German snuffs myself. I haven't much cared for any of the few from India that I've tried. And, like another poster, I won't even look at a snuff from China.

[rickcharles606]

English or German for me. I'm scared of the Indian snuffs, for all the reasons listed previously.

[whalen]

Spain, RIP Spanish Jewel. Nothing else could compete.

[CoderGuy]

English for me, although I do like some German too

[Ephemeris]

It really has less to do with geographic location and more to do with the company/blender.

Swedish Match produces some of the "healthiest" nasal snuff around (in terms of contaminants and TSNAs) in some of the shittiest hellholes in Africa, where people can't even use the natural water supply because it's contaminated with human waste. Swedish Match then spends 40 million dollars creating a freshwater treatment plant specifically to handle their tobacco farms. Another unscrupulous snuff maker could set up shop in the same town and produce a snuff using the natural water supply and it could end up giving somebody Ebola or something. But because the manufacturer advertises that he uses the same resources as Swedish Match, people are conned into thinking they're buying an SM-grade snuff. Not so. It's not really like you can say "African snuff is dangerous" because if it's made by a large, reputable company, it's probably pretty safe. But if it's made by a local medicine man using ingredients like rhinoceros penis, then yes, African snuff can be pretty dangerous.

There are some Chinese snuffs out there that are made with exquisite care and premium ingredients, just like they were 300 years ago. They're every bit as legendary as Spanish Jewel among Asian snuffers. But on the other hand you have snuff made in sweatshops by 5 year old kids using a wooden pulverizer where dogs walk around pissing everywhere and there's no running water for miles around.

I was sent a Spanish snuff that had a frigging dead dung beetle in the can. On the other hand, Spanish Jewel is often regarded as the best snuff ever made by certain "connoisseurs."

America is no better or worse than the other countries. Our standards are a bit higher overall than say China or Afghanistan but we can still turn out some substandard products.

I would have to say that on a whole, the most consistent manufacturers have always been the German, Swiss, Dutch and British. (We're talking strictly nasal snuff in this post).