Well, it's all doom and gloom at the moment isn't it?

Shares down to a 5 year low, house prices plumeting, unemployment on the up, spiraling debt and unknown consequences to follow the years of overspending. Is there anything we can be happy about?

YES, in these Dickensian times snuff is making an unlikely comeback!!! Consumers are gradually realising that cigarettes are burning large holes in your pockets as well as your clothes, and that is a price which many households can no longer afford.

A tin of snuff will last you for weeks and will only cost you £1 - 2. There are hundreds of varieties to try out there is a growing community of users. Roderick Lawrie, chief executive of Toque Tobacco Snuff, said his sales figures have risen by a whopping 78 per cent in the last year.

People are also turning to snuff to help them stop smoking and there are many health advantages to taking snuff.

Professor John Britton, chairman of the cigarette and tobacco committee at the Royal College of Physicians, said snuff "Switching to snuff would lower your chances of lung cancer and pulmonary disease by at least 90 per cent." and also "However the chances of nasal cancer is increased by two or three fold."

Personally I think the more people who can make that switch, the better really, as compared to smoking, snuff is an absolute saint.

OK, I'm off to Reykjavik to get my savings back!
Happy Snuffin'
The Snuffman