[Avodah] Snuff (tobacco/shmek tabak) on Pesach

[A & C Walters]

Bs”d

 

Regarding the psak in MB 467:33 regarding if it’s mutar to use snuff on
Pesach, he concludes: עתה יש לחקור אצל האומנין אם עושין כן – nowadays, one
should inquire from the experts/manufacturers if they do this (i.e. add
chometz to the snuff)

 

Therefore, I wrote to Wilson’s, who is the biggest snuff manufacturer and
asked them:

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I wonder if you can help me. As a regular user of Wilson’s Snuff, I would
first of all like to thank you for the excellent quality, service, and
prices which you provide. However, I have a query which I hope you can help
me with.

 

As you may or may not be aware, in about 3 weeks is the Jewish Festival of
Passover. As ordained in Exodus 13:3, it is forbidden for Jews to eat, own
or use or benefit from Chometz for the period of a week. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chametz> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chametz.
My question is, do any of your snuffs contain any ingredients which could be
considered chometz. This includes any grain-alcohol which may be used, as
well as in flavourings.

 

If not, please let me know, as here there are a lot of Wilson’s snuff users
who are worried about what to do.

 

 

With regards

 

They replied: 

 

Dear Mr. Walters,

We have been studying your Wikipedia definition of Chametz and conclude that
there is nothing in our snuffs that could form any part of it. Even
fermentation, which we used to do on our tobaccos, we discontinued thirty
years ago.

Best regards,

Wilsons & Co.(Sharrow) Ltd.

 

 

My question is: can one be soimech on them, or not

 

Kol Tuv

 

 

Avrohom Yitschok Walters



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