"Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker"
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The intent isn’t to deny harm so much as to mock the moral bookkeeping that gets imposed on women whose job is visibility. Moss isn’t just “a model”; she’s a symbol, and symbols get punished for the sins of the audience, the industry, the tabloid machine, and the public health panic of the moment. Her phrasing implies a fatigue with a world that treats her existence like a public service announcement: if young women starve, it’s her fault; if people smoke, it’s her fault; if the culture can’t metabolize its own appetites, it blames the person who embodies them.
“Social smoker” is the slyest detail: it’s an attempt to shrink the supposed crime to something ordinary, even unremarkable. That minimization is both self-defense and a jab at puritanical celebrity scrutiny, where a cigarette becomes a headline and a body becomes a debate stage. The subtext: stop asking famous women to carry everyone else’s anxieties on their ribcage.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moss, Kate. (2026, January 15). Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-im-being-blamed-not-only-for-anorexia-but-for-150557/
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Moss, Kate. "Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-im-being-blamed-not-only-for-anorexia-but-for-150557/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-im-being-blamed-not-only-for-anorexia-but-for-150557/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

