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Back in the early 1700’s immigrants from Sweden and Holland began growing and harvesting tobacco on the banks of the Hudson river just north of New Amsterdam, currently New York City. The Swedish tobacco workers brought an oral tobacco product with them that was popular in Sweden called “snus” which is Swedish for snuff. Snus is a moist, ground tobacco product that was used by taking a pinch of the tobacco and placing it in the lower lip. When these workers decided to stay in the new world, they began making a similar product. But the American moist snuff didn’t really catch on until 1822 when George Weyman, a tobacconist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, invented Copenhagen. |