As one French practitioner observed in 1742, Snuff heals head colds, inflammation of the eyes, involuntary tears, headaches, migraines, dropsy, paralysis, and generally all those misfortunes caused by the pungency of the humours, their too great amount and their dissipation from their normal conduits.[4] These early modern physicians argued that the sneezing induced by snuffing helped to jettison corrupt humors from the body, thus leading to recovery
[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] Crotty Alexander LE, Ware LB, Calfee CS, Callahan SJ, Eissenberg T, Farver C, Goniewicz ML, Jaspers I, Kheradmand F, King TE Jr, Meyer NJ, Mikheev V, Shields PG, Shihadeh A, Strongin R & Tarran R (2020)
It has been used in cigarettes and pipetobacco to set flavour to in the good 'ole hey days
The major difference is that the novice may panic and wonder where it will end, whereas the expert will lie down and ask for a snack