The 20th century saw the end of widespread use of snuff. It can be said that the rise in fame of the common cigarette is largely responsible for the death of the snuff taking habit. Snuff did still remain popular in certain communities such as Ireland, Western Scotland, Iceland and Southern Germany.

After 1949, the communist revolution in China outlawed snuff as a decadent habit of the Qing dynasty.

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