chewing tobacco

shortys94 · 03-03-2009 6:23pm #1

does anybody know where you can buy chewing tobacco in the west of Ireland?

Thanks:)

pa990 · 03-03-2009 7:22pm

Chewing Tobacco is illegal in Ireland and UK.. it might even be illegal europe wide.

It is available in Norway and the USA

shortys94 · 03-03-2009 7:49pm

Are you sure?

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 03-03-2009 8:11pm

shortys94 wrote: »

Are you sure?

Yea it was some silly EU regulation.

BeerNut · 03-03-2009 8:33pm

Sean_K wrote: »

some silly EU regulation.

Directive 2001/37/EC, Article 8:

Member States shall prohibit the placing on the market of tobacco for oral use, without prejudice to Article 151 of the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.

Transposed into silly Irish law as section 38(2) of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002:

It shall be an offence for a person to manufacture, import, supply, sell or invite an offer to purchase an oral smokeless tobacco product.

pa990 · 03-03-2009 10:53pm

I'm positive

You'll just have to do with regular Cigarettes, Cigars, Snuff, Pipe Tobacco.. or a good Shag

KTRIC · 03-03-2009 10:55pm

A lot of my colleagues chew tobacco which they import from Sweden where its legal.

It's a disgusting habit but seemingly very common there.

MediaTank · 04-03-2009 1:22pm

KTRIC wrote: »

A lot of my colleagues chew tobacco which they import from Sweden where its legal.

It's a disgusting habit but seemingly very common there.

Sweden and Norway. It's called 'snus'.

JJ · 04-03-2009 1:51pm

I never realised it was illegal here. That would explain why you see it just about everywhere in the US but not here. Even though it's a disgusting habit and can lead to mouth cancer, at least there isn't any second hand smoke. When the smoking ban came in, all the pubs could've enticed all the smokers back in with chewing tobacco.

red_ice · 04-03-2009 1:55pm

KTRIC wrote: »

A lot of my colleagues chew tobacco which they import from Sweden where its legal.

It's a disgusting habit but seemingly very common there.

Its not chewing tobacco. I take it myself, its called snus. There are loads of alternative flavors.. its like bubblegum for smokers i guess. Its a great way to get off of cigarettes too.

The main point being, its nto for chewing, you place it under your lip above your front teeth to the side. I get ready packed snus, it looks like a mini tea bag and it drips the taste into your mouth.

Its soooo good.

shortys94 · 19-05-2009 7:55pm

Yea just put it behind the lip, in new york they call it 'packin' a lip'

mayordenis · 19-05-2009 8:09pm

yea alot of people where I work import snus from sweden - totally illegal here though.

_blank_ · 20-05-2009 11:03am

Um.

Beer Wine and Spirits?

chewing tobacco

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