During the 19th century snuff was still popular amongst many parts of society in Europe, although Victorian England became less tolerant of the habit that was started to be frowned upon in some quarters. Snuff did, however, remain popular amongst professions where it wasn’t possible to smoke or to be seen to smoke such as Doctors, lawyers, judges, the clergy and of course miners.

During the nineteenth century, snuff was used so widely in the Chinese population that literally millions of snuff bottles existed.

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