Smokeless tobacco placed under the lip for the nicotine to be absorbed by the gums. If you’re familiar with dipping tobacco (“dip”), it’s the same concept, but the tobacco is processed differently and is usually in little teabag-like pouches for convenience.
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 months agoI could probably Google, but what on earth is snus?
AdmiralRob@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An attempt to make snuff cool again.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s a type of swedish smokeless tobacco that has seen popularity elsewhere. It is something like chewing tobacco in a miniature teabag. Health risks are likely lower than other forms of tobacco, based on current (limited) evidence, both due to the lack of combustion and manufacturing process (pasteurized rather than curing and fermentation) but it’s still addictive because of the nicotine and shows an increase in cancer incidence.
Apparently, Swedish snus also has higher bioavailability of nicotine than American due to pH and moisture content.
Apparently, disgusting fuckers in the previous comment were spitting the little “teabags” out on the shelf above the urinals or in the urinals (I’ve seen the later).