France's lower house of parliament today adopted a groundbreaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone to publicly incite extreme thinness. Fashion industry experts said that the law, which would apply to magazines, advertisers and websites, would be the strongest of its kind anywhere. Valerie Boyer, from the ruling UMP party, proposed the new legislation which she said would give judges the power to imprison offenders and fine them up to 30,000 euros (£24,125) if convicted of "inciting others to deprive themselves of food" to an "excessive" degree.
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