A snuff container having a height (h) in a height direction (H) and having a circumference (c) in a circumferential direction (C) in a plane perpendicular to said height direction (H) and comprising a container base having a bottom wall and a base side wall and a container lid having a top wall and a lid side wall , said container lid being removably attached to said container base with an outer surface of said lid side wall aligned with an outer surface of said base side wall , a split-line being arranged between a lower edge of said lid side wall and an upper edge of said base side wall said split-line extending in said circumferential direction (C) of said snuff container , said snuff container comprising a sealing label for sealing said snuff container , wherein said sealing label is attached to said snuff container with said length direction (L) of said sealing label coinciding with said circumferential direction (C) of said snuff container and with said height direction (H) of said snuff container coinciding with said width direction (W) of said sealing label , said sealing label comprising a structural layer and having first and second side edges extending in a length direction (L) and first and second end edges extending in a width direction (W) said sealing label being divided in said width direction (W) into a container lid attachment area being attached to said lid side wall , a container base attachment area being attached to said base side wall and a tear strip area arranged between said container lid attachment area and said container base attachment area , said tear strip area being terminated by a pull tab arranged at said first end edge , said tear strip area completely covering said split line between said lower edge of said lid side wall and said upper edge of said base side wall , said sealing label having a length (I) in said length direction (L) and a width (w) in said width direction (W), a ratio (l/w) between said length (I) and said width (w) being from 7 to 25, said structural layer of said sealing label consisting of a mono oriented polymer film having a direction of orientation coinciding with said length direction (L) of said sealing label , said structural layer of said sealing label being a single structural layer of said sealing label , characterized in that said split-line between said lower edge of said lid side wall and said upper edge of said base side wall has a width (w s ) in said height direction of said snuff container of from 0.5 to 2.5 millimetres, such as from 0.7 millimetres to 1.5 millimetres and in that a width of said tear strip area of said sealing label is from 0.5 millimetres to 2.5 millimetres, such as from 0.6 millimetres to 1.5 millimetres, wherein said tear strip area has the same width as said split-line or is at most 0.7 millimetres wider than said split line such as at most 0.5 millimetres wider than said split line or at most 0.3 millimetres wider than said split line , wherein tear initiation cuts are arranged in said structural layer on each side of said pull tab at said first end edge of said sealing label , a distance between said tear initiation cuts corresponding to said width of said tear strip area . <EOS>