“Better dead than fat” or “plutôt mourir qu'être grosse” could be the motto of a growing number of French women.

French men may be putting away their smokes and increasingly avoiding lung cancer, but more women smokers are dying from it in France today than ever before.

The desire to remain slender, many say, is what keeps them puffing.

Take Dorothée Rascle, an attractive Parisian singer whose long red hair has been tinged with smoke since she was a teenager. “I am on stage and my weight matters,” says the thirtysomething performer, who has no intention of giving up. “If I stopped smoking, the first thing I’d think about would be weight gain,” she says. “If you work on stage, you have to look cool—and not be enormous.”

Full Article: thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/06/20/french-women-smokers-say-better-dead-than-fat

agreed

This will replace their current motto “Ce soir, je vais battre mon mari coureur de jupons inconscient avec une baguette!”

real as hell

death from cancer is painful

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COME AND TAKE IT

Real

look @ my header

Real

Unbelievably based

and death from obesity issues isn't?

real

Yup

what a sad day OP has been compromised by the French 🙏

So real

healthy

Real

Not being fat or smoking >>

Grosse means fat? accurate, better cancel the French for fat shaming

Ah yes because you're either fat or get cancer from smoking, no in between

I’m fat and alive and doing well.

GG to the dead smoking on that

Sounds like a bunch of old sad b****es