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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Most of what you write is about oral snuff, not nasal
snuff; thus irrelevant to this discussion. In </span></font>England the cancer
warning was removed from snuff, as was not proven. Your other ‘smokeless
tobacco’ sources are also oral snuff, both chewing and smokeless. Also,
your ‘cancer’ information is also only relevant to oral snuff. As
with gum disease oral leukopakia etc.</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Your only relevant article is that from the BBC.
However, all it mentions is ‘preliminary results from a team of
researchers examining native</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>American women who take snuff’</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: "A & C Walters" <></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Regarding the psak in MB 467:33 regarding if it?s
mutar to use snuff on</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Pesach, he concludes: one should inquire from the
experts/manufacturers</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> if they do this (i.e. add chometz to the snuff)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>My question is, are you allowed to snort the stuff all
year.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>It has previously, however been associated with an
increased risk of nasal</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>cancer. <a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/737840.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/737840.stm</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The BBC
article was written in the year 2000. Since then, all cancer warnings have been
removed from snuff, due to lack of evidence i.e. unproved i.e. not true.</span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Therefore,
you have presented NO evidence whatsoever for any harm caused by nasal snuff.</span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>===</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Having many times seen some alteh Yid pass around his
tabik pishkeh in</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Shul on Shabbos, I always wonder what exactly is the
great pleasure of</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>sticking this stuff up your nose - which usually
culminates in an almighty</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>sneezy eruption?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>And is it really such a great Mitzvah to be spreading
all those germs</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>throughout the Shul?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[A & C Walters]
</span></font></i></b>Yes It is. It is chesed, and tzedoko, and was and still
is a minhag Yisroel, and as such is at least in the geder of shomer psoim
Hashem</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[A
& C Walters] </span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[A
& C Walters] And any experienced snuff user doesn’t sneeze 99% when
using snuff. I’d suggest introducing tissues into your shul if it bothers
you</span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[A
& C Walters] </span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[A
& C Walters] </span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[A
& C Walters] Kol Tuv</span></font></i></b></p>
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