“Snus” or snuff is popular in Sweden and Norway. It’s considered perfectly polite and socially acceptable to insert a small snuff packet in between lip and gum while you are sitting at a dinner table with friends or waiting in line for the tram. (Luckily unlike ‘dip’ or chewing tobacco – also originally a Swedish import! – in America, Swedish snuff doesn’t make you need to spit.)

Swedes think snus is a good way to get a nicotine fix at bars, restaurants, movie theaters and other public venues (airline flights!) where smoking cigarettes and pipes has long been forbidden. Snuff delivers a quick jolt of nicotine to the bloodstream as it ha