Talk:Zig-Zag (company)

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This may be unfounded hearsay, but I was told a story about the history of the "zig zag man", and how he was supposedly the inventor of the modern cigarette.. Story goes a Zouave, a french musket infantryman in ww1 (?), was smoking a pipe while under fire and his pipe was hit by a musket ball. The zouave, in a cunning display of french ingenuity, emptied a paper cartridge (that's how bullets were made then I guess) and filled it with tobacco.. he then went on to become the first (registered?) trademark (trademark involving the bust of a spokesperson?) or some other far-fetched claim.. does anyone have any sources on this? I'm not sure on a lot of the details, and I'm not sure it belongs in an encyclopedia, but an interesting story nonetheless.

Uncommon and hard to find? I don't believe this is accurate, as I've been smoking Zig-Zag on and off over the last few years. The only time I didn't find it, I asked the tobacco shop proprieter and he ordered it for me.

In which country is Zig Zag tobacco hard to find? I've never seen it myself but I would imagine that it would be more popular in some places than others. What are the four varieties? Aligma 23:47, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't think you even get Zig Zag tobacco in the UK, but we do get zigzag papers -- Sam.

No Zig Zag papers seen in Belgium, never before.

This paragraph, "Many artists and musicians, such as Eminem, have used Zig-Zag products in their art to represent cannabis consumption." Eminem and Zig-Zag, help me out, I can't find the art(cover).

Most Zig-Zag products arn't uncommon to find in Australia. The orange papers, the orange double packs, the red king size papers, i think there even slow burning papers and as well as the rolling machines. Never heard of their brand of Tobacco tho.

the references to Zig Zag by Eminem are in the song 'The Way I Am':

_{"I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag of this weed it gives me the shit needed to be the most meanest MC on this -- on this Earth"} -1348- 17:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MADD Ad Campaign

MADD (Mothers Against Drinking and Driving) has released a series of tv ads where various items tell "stoners" that they ought not smoke pot and then drive. One features a talking pack of Zig-Zags, with the Zouave on the cover telling a young man he's "way too high" to drive. I've been trying hard to find a reference to this... Anyone got a link? --Hiddekel 14:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] interleaving

I removed the link to interleaving since it doesn't apply to this. Wiktionary has a fitting definition: "interleave: To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing". I'd switch the link to go there instead, but i don't know if it's proper for a wikipedia article to link to wiktionary.. perhaps someone who knows for sure might want to do that, or (also?) clarify a bit more what interleaving is, as it pertains to rolling papers. 24.153.122.13 (talk) 19:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)