Copenhagen Snuff | Flavors and Cuts Guide

WARNING: This product is not a safe alternative to cigarettes.

Copenhagen is the oldest tobacco brand still sold in the United States. George Weyman began making it in Pittsburgh in 1822, and it is made today by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC), an Altria subsidiary, in Tennessee and Kentucky. It is a moist smokeless tobacco, sold loose in 1.2 oz cans in four cuts and pre-portioned in 0.82 oz cans of pouches, under variety names printed on the lid. This guide lists the current line by cut and name, explains what “cut” means, and covers the brand’s history, its declining share of a category that nicotine pouches now dominate, and the regulatory record, including the one FDA modified-risk order ever granted to a moist snuff.

Last verified September 11, 2026 against Altria’s second-quarter 2026 results, FDA marketing and modified-risk orders, California’s Unflavored Tobacco List, and retailer listings for variety names USSTC does not publish itself. Sources at the end.

The brand

Fact	Copenhagen
Product type	Moist smokeless tobacco (moist snuff, “dip”)
Manufacturer	U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC, Richmond, Virginia
Parent	Altria Group, since January 6, 2009
Launched	1822, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by George Weyman
Made in	Nashville, Tennessee (closing early 2028) and Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where USSTC broke ground on a $250 million plant in September 2026; Franklin Park, Illinois also produces USSTC brands
Price tier	Premium (with Skoal); USSTC also makes Husky and Red Seal
Category share	13.1% of the US oral tobacco category in Q2 2026, down from 29.5% in 2021 (Altria; basis includes nicotine pouches since 2025)
Shipments	362.8 million cans in 2025, down from 503.6 million in 2021
Can sizes	1.2 oz (34.02 g) loose; 0.82 oz (23.25 g) pouches
FDA modified-risk order	Copenhagen Classic Snuff, granted March 16, 2023 (see Regulation)

Cuts

Cut is the size of the tobacco particle, and it is the physical difference between cans that otherwise carry the same variety name. Fine cut, which USSTC calls “snuff,” is the original 1822 form: finely ground tobacco. Long cut is tobacco cut into strands. Extra long cut is longer strands. Pouches are moist tobacco pre-portioned into small permeable bags, sold in a smaller 0.82 oz can; they are smokeless tobacco, not tobacco-free nicotine pouches, which are a separate product category under a separate set of FDA rules. USSTC does not sell a “wide cut” Copenhagen; that format exists at Grizzly.

The lineup

USSTC’s own site lists only “Copenhagen” and “Copenhagen Pouches.” The variety names below come from FDA documents, California’s Unflavored Tobacco List and retailer listings, and are as printed on the can. Flavor names are identifiers only.

Cut	Variety as printed	Can	Notes
Fine cut (snuff)	Copenhagen Snuff (Copenhagen Classic Snuff in FDA documents)	1.2 oz	The original product; FDA modified-risk order 2023. Formerly labeled “Copenhagen Snuff Fine Cut”
Fine cut	Copenhagen Fine Cut Wintergreen	1.2 oz	Out of stock at retailers checked; current status not confirmed
Long cut	Copenhagen Long Cut	1.2 oz	Original, no added flavor name
Long cut	Copenhagen Long Cut Straight	1.2 oz
Long cut	Copenhagen Long Cut Wintergreen	1.2 oz
Long cut	Copenhagen Long Cut Select Wintergreen	1.2 oz	FDA substantial-equivalence order March 4, 2020, replacing Long Cut Smooth Wintergreen
Long cut	Copenhagen Long Cut Mint	1.2 oz
Long cut	Copenhagen Long Cut Southern Blend	1.2 oz
Extra long cut	Copenhagen Extra Long Cut Natural	1.2 oz
Pouches	Copenhagen Pouches	0.82 oz	Original
Pouches	Copenhagen Pouches Wintergreen	0.82 oz
Pouches	Copenhagen Pouches Mint	0.82 oz	Out of stock at retailers checked; current status not confirmed

Discontinued varieties with dates in the public record: Cope Long Cut Whiskey Blend and Smooth Hickory (2007) and Mid Cut Black (2011), per secondary sources; Long Cut Black’s end date is not documented. Copenhagen Packs and the Spitfree snus line are out of stock at every retailer checked and USSTC no longer lists them. Plastic-can versions of several varieties are sold in Alaska and Hawaii.

History

George Weyman opened a tobacco shop in Pittsburgh in 1822 and began making the snuff that became Copenhagen; the brand name predates every cigarette brand sold in America. Weyman & Bro. was bought by the American Tobacco Company in 1905, spun back out as Weyman-Bruton when American Tobacco was split into four companies in 1911, and renamed United States Tobacco Company in 1922. For most of the twentieth century Copenhagen and its stablemate Skoal were the two dominant moist snuff brands in the country.

Altria agreed to buy UST in September 2008 for $69.50 a share, about $10.4 billion, and closed on January 6, 2009 at a total of about $11.7 billion including assumed debt; USSTC’s headquarters moved from Greenwich, Connecticut to Richmond. Since then Copenhagen’s position has changed more than in the previous century. Altria’s own figures show the brand at 29.5% of the US oral tobacco category in 2021, 23.5% in 2023, 15.4% in 2025 and 13.1% in the second quarter of 2026, as nicotine pouches went from 15.4% of the category in 2021 to 59.9% in mid-2026; Altria’s own pouch brand, on!, is part of that shift. Copenhagen shipments fell from 503.6 million cans in 2021 to 362.8 million in 2025. In May 2026 USSTC announced it would close the Nashville plant in early 2028 and consolidate production in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where it has operated since 1916 and broke ground on a 270,000 square foot facility in September 2026.

Regulation

Smokeless tobacco has been regulated by the FDA since the 2009 Tobacco Control Act. Products on the market before February 15, 2007 are grandfathered; anything changed since needs a substantial-equivalence order, such as the March 2020 order for Copenhagen Long Cut Select Wintergreen. On March 16, 2023 the FDA granted USSTC’s 2018 application to market Copenhagen Classic Snuff as a modified-risk tobacco product, the first and so far only such order for a moist snuff. The authorized claim, verbatim, is: “IF YOU SMOKE, CONSIDER THIS: Switching completely to this product from cigarettes reduces risk of lung cancer.” The order runs five years, requires post-market surveillance, allows no other reduced-risk claim, and does not permit any suggestion that the FDA endorses the product. It is reported here as a regulatory fact about one product; it does not apply to any other Copenhagen variety, and the four warnings below still apply to all of them.

Every can carries one of four rotating warnings covering at least 30% of the two main faces, required since July 22, 2010: “This product can cause mouth cancer,” “This product can cause gum disease and tooth loss,” “This product is not a safe alternative to cigarettes,” and “Smokeless tobacco is addictive.” Massachusetts restricted all flavored tobacco, including mint and wintergreen smokeless, to licensed smoking bars from June 1, 2020. California’s SB 793 banned flavored tobacco sales from December 21, 2022, and since January 1, 2025 a smokeless product may be sold there only if it appears on the state’s Unflavored Tobacco List. The federal excise tax on snuff is $1.51 per pound, set by the 2009 CHIPRA increase. The FDA’s withdrawn 2025 menthol proposal covered cigarettes, not smokeless.

FAQs

Who makes Copenhagen? U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, part of Altria, which also makes Skoal, Husky and Red Seal and the on! nicotine pouch.

What is the difference between Copenhagen Snuff and Long Cut? The cut. Snuff is finely ground; long cut is strands. Same brand, same variety names available in both.

Does Copenhagen come in pouches? Yes: Copenhagen Pouches, Pouches Wintergreen and Pouches Mint, in 0.82 oz cans. They contain tobacco and carry the smokeless warnings; they are not nicotine pouches.

Is Copenhagen FDA approved? The FDA does not “approve” tobacco products. It has authorized Copenhagen Classic Snuff to carry one specific modified-risk statement, quoted above, and has issued marketing orders for changed varieties. Approval is not the word for either.

How much sodium is in Copenhagen? Smokeless tobacco averages roughly 1.75% sodium by weight, per a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine; sodium is present as part of the alkaline buffer that affects how nicotine is released.

How does Copenhagen compare with Grizzly? On the facts, in Copenhagen vs Grizzly. The Grizzly line is in the Grizzly guide.

Required warnings

Smokeless tobacco carries four rotating federal warnings. All four apply to every product on this page.

• WARNING: This product can cause mouth cancer.
• WARNING: This product can cause gum disease and tooth loss.
• WARNING: This product is not a safe alternative to cigarettes.
• WARNING: Smokeless tobacco is addictive.

Sources

• Altria, 2026 second-quarter results, July 30, 2026; 2025 full-year results, January 29, 2026; 2022 full-year results, February 1, 2023; Altria press release on completing the UST acquisition, January 6, 2009 (SEC EDGAR)
• U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, Our products and ingredients; Altria, USSTC facility relocation, May 21, 2026; The Lane Report, Hopkinsville expansion, September 8, 2026
• FDA, FDA authorizes Copenhagen Classic Snuff to be marketed as a modified risk tobacco product, March 16, 2023, and MRTP application page; FDA Technical Project Lead review, SE0015469 (Long Cut Select Wintergreen), March 2020
• FDA, Smokeless tobacco labeling and warning statement requirements; TTB, tax rates; Mass.gov, 2019 Tobacco Control Law; California Attorney General, publication of the Unflavored Tobacco List, December 31, 2025
• Retailer listings (snus.us, Brookshire Brothers, Albertsons, DeCA commissaries) for variety names and can weights, checked September 11, 2026

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