While taking snuff was a common social ritual in European salons, these boxes were made for display or as gifts.
Years ago, when snuff was more widely used, cancer of the mouth was not uncommon -- among baseball players, for example.
Ayrıntı Publishing House, which was on trial for its publication of Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff, was told the same thing.
The variety, grown on the volcanic slopes of nearby Mount Etna, looks like a gently squashed peach and resembles the snuffboxes that Sicilian gents carried when a pinch of snuff was a gentlemanly thing to take.
In more ways than one, this era of immersive, one-click-away snuff was inaugurated on Sept. 11, 2001, when falling bodies and crumbling towers became the most widely viewed scenes of mass death in human history.
The producers also slapped on an incendiary tag line trumpeting the film's origins "in South America... where Life is CHEAP!" "Snuff" was a sham, a crudely faked one at that, and a triumph of marketing.
