[detritus]

'Elegant'? Have you ... ever tried it?

My experience of it decades ago was anything other than 'elegant', unless having one's face scrunch up like a bulldog pissing on a nettle before exploding into a sneezing fit can be considered 'elegant'.

[api]

It's totally 17th century elegant. Take a sniff, scrunch up your face, blow snot on the ground, load up your elephant gun and head to Africa for King and Country! All you need is a monocle.

[lokedhs]

The OP may be referring to Snus, which is often referred to as Snuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus

[detritus]

I had that stuff too, around the same time* - and re-visited it on a trip to Sweden last year.. and, I'd still not consider it particularly 'elegant' :)

* we had a deal with our English teacher - my Swedish friend would supply him with little snus bundles, and we'd all get to sit in class using it ourselves. As a 17 year old, I thought it was the coolest thing, 'getting away with smoking in class with the teacher', even if i thought the actual process was utterly, utterly disgusting :)

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