The Oldie the years with such slogans as ""The Oldie": Buy it before you snuff it", and its lampooning of youth subculture and what it sees as the absurdities of modern life. It was the first mainstream publication to break the Jimmy Savile sex scandal. Despite being called "The Oldie", the magazine often stresses that it is not an age-specific publication, and has many readers in their twenties, thirties and forties. It has similarities to "Punch", "Viz", "The Spectator", "Private Eye", and "The New Yorker". The Oldie of the Year Awards (TOOTY) is the magazine's annual awards ceremony, hosted by Terry Wogan
Snuff (tobacco) used snuff, as well as numerous other notable persons. The taking of snuff helped to distinguish the elite members of society from the common populace, which generally smoked its tobacco. It was also during the 18th century that an English author and botanist, John Hill, concluded nasal cancer could develop with the use of snuff; under the guise of a doctor, he reported five cases of 'polyps, a swelling in the nostril adherent with the symptoms of open cancer'. Modern studies, however, have concluded there is no conclusive evidence of a relationship with nasal snuff-taking and cancer. In Victorian era