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The history of Zig-Zag rolling papers is as far out as it is iconic (10 Photos and GIFs)
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Who is Le Zouave?
The most iconic part of Zig-Zag’s packaging is that bearded man on every label. Who the hell is he?
Well, he’s something of a legend. There’s a tale from the Battle of Sevastopol in 1879 about a French soldier, specifically, a class of light infantryman called a “Zouave.” The tale goes that he was attempting to smoke tobacco from a clay pipe when it was struck by a bullet. His solution to this problem was… Interesting.
He tore off a piece of paper from his bag of gunpowder and rolled the tobacco with that. The story spread around for years in France, and when you need a logo for rolling papers, Le Zouave makes perfect sense.
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