>>1999807This is a problem of slang and dialect more than of tobacco.
You’re referring to two completely different tobacco products: dipping tobacco (skoal, copenhagen, grizzly) and chewing tobacco (red man, levi garrett, cannonball, etc.).
Dipping tobacco is genetically related to Swedish snus, and was originally called snus in America - or chewing snuff, or moist snuff. The correct name for this product really is just moist snuff, but the translation from “snus” to English was unsophisticated and varied from brand to brand. In certain places in America, any smokeless oral tobacco was called “chew”, but this is incorrect.
Chewing tobacco is just tobacco that you chew. In America, this is usually scraps of sweetened leaf that you gnaw on to moisten it up, and then stick it in your cheek. Dip is used more or less like snus, put into the divot of the upper or lower lip. In Europe, chewing tobacco also exists, but usually as twisted rope (sold as-is in certain parts of England, and sold as small cuts of rope in a tin or pouch in continental Europe).
Chew used to be FAR more popular than dip, but USST (United States Smokeless Tobacco, the manufacturer of Copenhagen and Skoal) made a huge advertising push starting in the 70’s, and the market has since shifted. In its current form, it’s one of the newest ways of using tobacco.
Here’s an example of USST’s marketing push, exemplified by a free sample offering at a mall
https://youtu.be/N9T83iPWuO8Source: I make videos exclusively about making your own smokeless tobacco and its history
