French legislators are poised to make it unlicensed for websites and publications to promote extreme thinness.

The proposed edict would apply to fashion magazines, advertisers and websites. Those form in a mould guilty of inciting others to deprive themselves of food to an ‘excessive’ degree would assurance imprisonment and fines of up to $47,000 US. 

The National Assembly approved the neb in a series of votes Tuesday. It goes to the Senate in the coming weeks.

The bill is the latest and strongest of measures proposed after the 2006 anorexia-linked decease of a Brazilian model prompted efforts throughout the international fashion industry to address the repercussions of using ultra-thin models. The 21-year-old model weighed just 88 pounds when she died of generalized infection caused by anorexia nervosa.

French lawmakers and fashion industry members signed a nonbonding charter last week without interruption promoting healthier body images. Last year, Spain banned ultra-thin models from catwalks.

In March, Italian authorities launched a $1.5-million US campaign against a enlarging epidemic of anorexia and other eating disorders in a country known for its fashion effort; labors and image consciousness. Authorities are aiming the concoct at schools and the media, providing guidelines for magazines, television, radio and internet sites to discourage ultra-thin beauty ideals.

According to the French Health Ministry, most of the estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people through anorexia in the rural are women.

With files from the Associated Press