swedish snus
The first time snus was named in Sweden was in 1637. A customs document states that snus was brought to Sweden from Porvoo in Finland.
In the 1700s, the use of snus became a must among the men and women of the aristocracy. A snus can was one of the possessions of a fine gentleman in the 1700s. It had to be expensive and handled with carefully controlled elegance. The cans were small masterpieces of gold, silver or other precious material and rapidly became a most popular gift.
In the 1700s, the Swedish tobacco industry had its breakthrough. Tobacco was planted in Skåne, Gränna and Alingsås, where the father of the potato, Jonas Alströmer, started growing tobacco on a large scale. At the end of the 1700s, tobacco was being grown in about 70 Swedish towns.
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