Twain’s Gazette of the Absurd

Twain’s Gazette of the Absurd

🧨 They Stubbed Out the Cigarette. Then They Fed It to Us.

San Francisco vs. the Snack Industrial Complex

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Kimberly Twain
Dec 19, 2025
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San Francisco has a proud tradition of annoying powerful industries. We nagged tobacco until it coughed up its internal memos. We taxed soda until it sulked. We slapped warning labels on products so blunt they sounded like disappointed parents.

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