In Ireland, there was a taunt threatening to outlive someone they'd say "I'll get a pinch of snuff off your belly yet!"

This expression derived from the custom of inviting mourners at a wake to to take a pinch of snuff from inside the coffin.
In London in the heyday of snuff taking, the late 18th century, Margaret Thompson an fanatical snuff addict, decided that a mere dish would not be enough, so in her will she requested that her coffin should be filled with Scotch snuff: "Nothing can be so fragrant and refreshing to me as that precious powder."

The coffin was also to be carried by six pallbearers, the leading snuff takers of the parish, wearing the snuff-colored beaver hats.(?) It was to be accompanied by a priest carrying a quantity of snuff, and six elderly ladies with a box of snuff to sustain them during the procession. Liberal quantities were to be scattered among her friends and neighbors at her house later. The after party had two bushels (16 gallons) of snuff and was passed out to all the guests. Her bizarre instructions were carried out in full.

From Reader's Digest "Facts & Fallacies"

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First of all, nasal snuff is not chew!
https://www.sheffieldexchange.com/nasal.htm

Few people in the Americas know anything about one of the oldest, and safest, forms of tobacco taking; one which is now gaining great popularity in the U.S. and Canada - Nasal Snuff.

Nasal snuff is a finely ground, flavored tobacco, taken in the non-offensive form of a simple sniff into the nostrils. Snuff began as the tobacco choice of royalty and the elite in 17th century Europe, before being provided to the masses. Still popular in Europe today, snuff is now gaining popularity in the Americas.

English nasal snuff is made with a wide variety of flavors, including spearmint, raspberry, apricot, lavender, bergamot, and Seville orange, to name just a few. The most popular use of snuff is to take just a pinch between you thumb and forefinger and sniff it lightly into the nose. This provides a pleasant aroma, lasting 15-20 minutes, as well as a noticeable nicotine lift. Many pipe smokers have also taken to the old English act of adding a sprinkle of their favorite snuff into their burning bowl of pipe tobacco for an added aroma, taste, and nicotine boost.

The Sheffield Exchange, Ltd. is the North American sole distributor of the world’s oldest, continually manufactured snuffs, Wilsons & Company of Sheffield, England.Wilsons also manufactures the renowned Fribourg & Treyer snuffs. These English snuff are still traditionally made, with the only ingredients being quality tobacco, natural fragrances, and water. Many German competitors add paraffin-based oils to their snuffs.

Because snuff is becoming so popular, many have questioned its health issues. Like any tobacco product there is a risk, but in 261 years of snuff making, Wilsons & Company has yet to have a single health case filed against them. According to Dr. Rodu, a leading pathologist studying cancer and tobacco, it’s the burning and inhaling of tobacco that creates most carcinogens. Many specialists feel that, for health reasons, if you are going to use tobacco, you are better off with a smokeless tobacco, like nasal snuff.

(I believe I read somewhere snuff was used so much because people took a bath once a month, I doubt if they brushed their teeth and flossed.)
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There has been a lot of discussion recently about the health effects of using snuff tobacco and using snuff as a nicotine substitute. Because the use of snuff has not been widespread over the recent decades there seems to be no conclusive evidence for or against nasal snuff due to the lack of a detailed study.

However, recently a report has emerged from Smokeless New Zealand, which shows how nasal snuff tobacco can substantially reduce health risks if used as a means to give up smoking.

There has only ever been 1 reported case of cancer from snuff use in the UK, which was from a farmer in Suffolk who managed to put snuff in his ear(!!!!) for 40 years and developed ear cancer - yes the mind boggles how and why he managed to do this. Additionally Wilson's of Sharrow claim that they have never had a health claim filed against them and they are the oldest snuffmakers in the UK.

This is, of course no proof that snuff is not harmful and further detailed studies are needed to prove this. However, in the British Medical Journal Volume 283 from 26th September 1981 some interesting results were reported. They reported that:

"Unlike tobacco smoke, snuff is free of tar and harmful gases such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. Since it cannot be inhaled into the lungs, there is no risk of lung cancer, bronchitis, and emphysema."

"The position with coronary heart disease is not clear. It is not known whether nicotine or carbon monoxide is the major culprit responsible for cigarette-induced coronary heart disease. If it is carbon monoxide a switch to snuff would reduce the risk substantially, but even if nicotine plays a part our results show that the intake from snuff is no greater than from smoking."
https://www.snufftobacco.co.uk/health
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History of Snuff from wiki...
Snuff taking by the Native Americans was first described by a monk named Ramon Pane in 1493, during Columbus' second journey to the Americas.

In 1561 Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal, sent snuff to Catherine de' Medici to treat her son's persistent migraines, after which she became a fan of snuff.

By the 1600s some started to object to snuff being taken. Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snufftakers, and in Russia in 1643, Tsar Michael set the punishment of removal of the nose for snuff use. However, there were still some fans; King Louis XIII of France was a devout snufftaker, and by 1638, snuff use had been reported to be spreading in China.

By the 1700s, Snuff had become the tobacco product of choice, with fans including Napoleon, George III's wife, and a new Pope, Benedict XIII. It is also during the 1700s that the first tobacco warnings were published, among these, John Hill, an English doctor warned of the overuse of snuff, causing vulnerability to nasal cancers. Snuff's image as an aristocratic luxury attracted the first U.S. federal tax on tobacco, created in 1794.

In Eighteenth-Century Britain, the Gentlewoman's Magazine advised readers with ailing sight to use the correct type of Portuguese snuff, "whereby many eminent people had cured themselves so that they could read without spectacles after having used them for many years."

Legal issues
Oral snuff, in the form of dipping tobacco and snus is banned from all countries of the European Union, except in Sweden and Norway, where the sale of snuff is legal

In spite of legal issues, snuff is readily available over the counter in most European tobacco shops. In Britain, snuff is much cheaper than cigarettes and other tobacco products as it is tax exempt, however for duty free reasons snuff still carries the same limitations as tobacco products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff
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