Europe and Snus!

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How does one bring snus into an EU country? Is it a hassle?

No, it's absolutely not! Snus is banned for sale but free to import for personal use. In most if not all EU-countries it's also free of duty.

Here's a possibly silly question from an American, but I just want to confirm something. Does this mean it is perfectly legal for someone in Belgium, for example, to order snus from buysnus.com?

[chainsnuser]

Here's a possibly silly question from an American, but I just want to confirm something. Does this mean it is perfectly legal for someone in Belgium, for example, to order snus from buysnus.com?

Yes! I couldn't fully believe it myself at first, but keep in mind, that snus is just smokeless tobacco, a hundred times less harmful than cigarettes and cigarettes are free for sale. Hell, 10m away from my house, just across the street, is a cigarette-vending-machine. You can find these machines every 100 metres here in the city.

Back to topic: So, if the EU decided to ban snus-sales to protect people from getting addicted to nicotine, people who are scared of smoking, then it is (with a bit of goodwill) barely understandable, but if they really tried to totally prohibit snus, while keeping cigarettes free, then at least I couldn't help to call the EU government a bunch of criminals. So I call the EU-government just a bunch of bastards, corrupted by the cigarette manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industry.

It's a sad story, but yeah, the snus-imports are perfectly legal.

Cheers!

[Snusburgh]

Re: Europe and Snus!

My bad, I have not been on the snus site in some time, 2 year old baby keeps me busy. I, of course, was just jabbing a little the Swiss are my life and livelyhood. I am interested that you Snus in Switzerland, I really did feel like a stranger in a strange land. I still like the German beer a little better, can you suggest a darker Dunkel style the Swiss make in the area. I am there every year for the show. Snusburgh. :roll:

I buy watches for a living and yearly travel to Basel

Hey, that's where I live! So when you're coming here always remember: you are not snusing alone out there :-)

Is it rude to snus and or place the snus in your mouth amoung company, at a restaurant etc?

Snus, as well as any other smokeless tobacco broduct, simply is like totally unknown here, so putting it in among company (and even worse: while being in a restaurant) might get you some attention.
I don't know if it would be considered rude though. Not among your friends or so, but maybe among other watch-selling businessmen. I think of the watch-business as being a noble, high-priced business, where it simply might not be considered "appropriate" to have something in your mouth while doing business talk.
If you are fine with portions and don't like constantly flip them around in your mouth, there should IMO be no problem. I'd however *not* use lössnus!
I personally only use portions in public and while in a resturant I'd simply put the new portion on my tongue and use my tongue to put the portion to it's final place. It's barely noticeable if you do it like this.

Still, in Basel just a short distance down the Rhine they look at you like you have grown horns with the snus or snuff?

This never happened to me ... erm, how much snus do you put under your lips then :-)

Are they jealous that I am a Fat lipper from America that gets the snus at good prices or do they want the German beer so bad they hate the world?

Neither: snus costs the same here as for you in the US (but we probably pay less for the freight). And I definitely do *not* prefer German beer over a well-cooled Swiss Feldschlösschen or Calanda! I'm doing hard not to take any offense here! (just kidding).

[captncaveman]

At work today i was baking a fat pris, i set it down to talk on the phone, and my friend threw some paper on top of it, i gave him a weird look picked it up and inserted into my lip. When i got off the phone he asked me why i put that much hash in my lip LOL it doesn't look like hash

[pens86]

Re: Europe and Snus!

I buy watches for a living and yearly travel to Basel and Germany. Is it rude to snus and or place the snus in your mouth amoung company, at a restaurant etc? In Germany, I never really encountered any looks and the people are top notch in my experience. Still, in Basel just a short distance down the Rhine they look at you like you have grown horns with the snus or snuff? Are they jealous that I am a Fat lipper from America that gets the snus at good prices or do they want the German beer so bad they hate the world? Snusburgh

First of all: LET'S GO PENS!

..Ehm Germany... ah I don't know man, atleast here in Scandinavia, snus is ok everywhere, at the movies, out amoung people,
Germany has their own set of rules...

EDIT: Snus never had glass in it, from what I understand they put tiny pieces of walnut (shell) in it, this would cut your upper lip up. A friend of my brother could put his finger up in a hole where he used to put the pris.