Antique Windmills Go About Their Daily Snuff Grind

(Wired) Most windmills today are used to generate electricity or pump water. But along the shores of a man-made lake in Rotterdam, two giants of antiquated machinery remain conscripted to their original purpose: pulverizing the fruits of the land for human consumption.
These two windmills, De Ster and De Lelie, both exemplars of 18th-century Dutch workmanship, are used to grind tobacco leaves into powdered nasal snuff.
Because of continued public health campaigns against smoking in Europe and the United States, the demand for alternative forms of smokeless tobacco like snuff is on the rise. And so, the giants are kept spinning. Continued