Dental Snuff Advertising Boards

Dental Snuff Advertising Boards.

[JayJay-pugx]

Dental Scotch Snuff is not only still available, but is sold at the "primary" tobacco shop near where I live (in the rural Carolinas). The label is still largely the same as your adboard shows, though now it incorporates the Surgeon General's warning. I cannot vouch for how it was used in the past (because I know that *dipping* snuff was, indeed, a pretty big thing among select parts of the female population down here), but I can assure you that the last thing that Dental Scotch Snuff sees these days is anyone's teeth. It is, by probably 80% of those who use it nowadays, used as a nasal snuff.

The brand was first marketed in 1782 (minus the "Scotch" designation, which is a relatively recent term to refer to American toasted snuffs). I am sure that the association with Ivey Owen & Co. is in the long-ago past. But this is one of those products that, for whatever reason, developed enough loyalty originally that, despite the endless corporate mergers and governmental decrees intervening, it was seen fit to retain as much of the original marketing/labeling and formula and has successfully appealed to consumers across generations.