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First produced by the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) in 1934 as the first wintergreen flavored dipping tobacco, Skoal is considered a high-priced product within the dipping tobacco market. "Skoal" is an Anglicization of skål, a term used often in Scandinavia to announce a toast of friendship, with connotations of well-wishing.
2001–present – U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company; During the 19th century, chewing tobacco was distributed throughout the United States by George Weyman. Weyman was the inventor of Copenhagen Snuff, [8] and after his death, Weyman & Bros was acquired by the American Tobacco Company. [9] It is today known as the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company. [10]
Smokeless tobacco is a tobacco product that is used by means other than smoking. [1] Their use involves chewing, sniffing, or placing the product between gum and the cheek or lip. [1] Smokeless tobacco products are produced in various forms, such as chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, and dissolvable tobacco products. [2]
The American Snuff Company, formerly Conwood Sales Company LLC, [2] is a US tobacco manufacturing company that makes a variety of smokeless tobacco products, including dipping tobacco or moist snuff, chewing tobacco in the forms of loose-leaf, plug, and twist, and dry snuff. [3] [4]
Dipping tobacco. Dipping tobacco is a type of finely ground or shredded, moistened smokeless tobacco product. It is commonly and idiomatically known as dip. Dipping tobacco is used by placing a pinch, or "dip", of tobacco between the lip and the gum (sublabial administration). The act of using it is called dipping.
1934: United States Tobacco Company introduces Skoal Wintergreen—the first of its kind for the company. 1968: Copenhagen introduces Copenhagen Snuff in a can. 1983: Skoal Bandits is introduced, breaking ground for Copenhagen to have its own brand of pouches. 1984: Skoal Long Cut is introduced, again a first for UST.
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Chewing tobacco endemic to the Western world is manufactured in several forms: Loose leaf. Loose leaf chewing tobacco, also known as scrap, is perhaps the most common contemporary form of American-style chewing tobacco. It consists of cut or shredded strips of tobacco leaf, and is usually sold in sealed pouches or bags lined with foil.