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"Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker"

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Kate Moss’s line lands because it’s a deadpan indictment disguised as a shrug. “Now I’m being blamed” is doing heavy work: it frames her less as a celebrity dispensing wisdom than as a convenient scapegoat in a culture that loves a single villain for messy, systemic problems. The joke is the escalation. Anorexia is the charge Moss has carried for decades, tied to “heroin chic,” runway thinness, and the way fashion imagery can turn bodies into commandments. Lung cancer is the absurd add-on, a grim disease stapled to something as banal and socially lubricating as “being a social smoker.” The whiplash is the point.

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.

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Kate Moss (born January 16, 1974) is a Model from England.

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