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A comic book teaching kids about pulverized smokeless tobacco: Snuff-Man

Ruben Bolling
Apr 01, 2026
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You won’t believe Helme’s Snuff-Man, a promotional comic book put out by the Helme Tobacco Company in 1954, in which a snuff (!) salesman regales two rapt young boys about the history and health benefits of consuming the ground or pulverized tobacco product.

George, a snuff salesman, arrives at the home of his date, Janie. While he waits for her to get r…

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