Swedish ‘snus’ – small pouches of moist oral tobacco you place under your top lip. It seems to have become pretty successful in other countries as well, strangely.
I saw this booth in a local mall last week – you upload a photograph and the machine will print a mobile phone cover with it. I have seen people put a photograph under a clear cover but this would be a nice gift for grandparents or best friends. I don’t know how protective they are though, probably not very.
There is an independent stationery shop in a shopping mall near us. These days you almost never see them anywhere. They still sell Filofax refills, and writing sets. When I saw this writing paper it brought back so many memories. As a graduation gift, I received a leather writing case, which I used until it fell apart. My mother used to write to my grandmother once a week. I used to write to my boyfriend in the military, to my best friend, and to my penpal in the US. I loved writing and receiving letters.
Snuff is what we call it in the US. Normally, placed in the lower cheek.
I think oral tobacco has been banned in the UK, because of the incidence of associated oral cancer.
Yes: banned in the EU since 1992:
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-04/35519/
Though I note ‘tobacco pouches’ for oral use seem to be exempt somehow…
I still have some air mail letter paper. Did you have those single sheet ones you had to origami back into format to seal?
Weren’t they called aerogrammes?
Quite possibly, I haven’t bought one since my teens in the 1980s