Snuff History 2 |
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By the 1700s, snuff had become the tobacco product of choice among the elite, prominent users including Napoleon, King George's wife Queen Charlotte, and Pope Benedict XIII. The taking of snuff helped to distinguish the elite members of society from the common populace, which generally smoked its tobacco. It is also during the 1700s that the first tobacco warnings were published, among these, John Hill, an English doctor warned of the overuse of snuff, causing vulnerability to nasal cancers. But snuff’s popularity would not be restricted to the aristocracy in Europe, nasal snuff had it’s eyes set on the New World as well. |