Swedes: they do it to fish, and they do it to Tobacco too.
If you're in the game for the nicotine, If you don't like smelling of smoke, If your missus complains, If you want a Nicotine rush to beat all others, and if you want to have brown shit dribbling down between your teeth: I suggest to you try Snus. (pronounced "S'noose")

Snus is essentially Steam.cured, dried and re-hydrated tobacco. (They do it with fish.. so why not tobacco?) On average, Swedes jam 800g of this stuff under their top lips each year. The nicotine slowly (well, quite quickly actually) gets absorbed into your bloodstream.

This stuff delivers a nicotine kick unlike anything else I've tried. A little portion under your lip can make the room spin within a minute. Imagine you're getting ALL the nicotine that's stored in a cigarette... then double it...

Quote from Wiki: "It is hypothesized that the widespread use of snus by Swedish men (estimated at 30% of Swedish male ex-smokers, possibly because it is much cheaper than cigarettes), displacing tobacco smoking and other varieties of snuff, is responsible for the incidence of tobacco-related mortality in men being significantly lower in Sweden than any other European country."

I have a colleague who's wife is a nurse. Dogged by their undying need to try anything kinky, She filled an enima bag with warm water and a couple of portions of Snus... inserted the pipe and squeezed... 1 minute later he was being violently ill. Apparently they never tried it again.

That's all I've got to say about thaat.

Oh... and it's banned throughout the EU apart from in Sweden... Go figure.
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 8:09, 2 replies)

^^
I've ssen that Snus stuff - apparantly many people in Sweden have small blisters under their top lip through hefty Snus use.
I have heard the reason it's banned elsewhere, specifically the UK is that the law only allows for so many tobacco products to be licensed at any one time.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 10:52, closed)

Snus
I tried Snus for the first time 2 weeks ago- a mate bought some on t'web.

Bleedin' 'ell, it's powerful stuff. I was feeling mellow within a couple of minutes and was quite enjoying it then, 10 minutes later, went white as a sheet and puked. It feels like smoking 20 fags at once and the nicotine going straight to your brain. Not doing that again.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 15:27, closed)