How safe are tanning booths?


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Once warmer weather hits, tanning salons everywhere become busy. Customers quickly purchase tanning packages, hoping to attain beautifully bronzed bodies just in time for swimsuit season. Unfortunately indoor tanning is not safe, primarily because consumers are not fully aware of the risks they are taking. The public is often dangerously mislead by indoor tanning myths and by the tanning facilities that continue to propagate these myths.


The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Dermatology unsuccessfully petitioned the FDA to ban indoor tanning in 1994. The Federal Trade Commission has warned consumers to beware of claims about the safety of indoor tanning. Consumers need to be better educated about the truth behind their sun-kissed glow. Here are some [ Continue Reading ]

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Why dont people buy American cars anymore?

The demise of American cars happened when they ceased being made solely in America.

A Chevrolet has Japanese parts and many of the models of their cars have identical Japanese equivalents. For example, the Suzuki

Vitara is the same car as the Chevrolet Tracker. The Vitara was lower priced, consumers paid more solely because of the Chevrolet tag.

Owning two vehicles, one a 22 year old Nissan pickup, the other a 9 year old Chevrolet, it has been possible to compare the differences in the quality of the cars. The Nissan, has been hit several times, each resulting in minimal damage from a U-haul truck loaded with construction debris, a car, and a pickup. The Tracker, suffered body damage when an empty plastic toolbox fell off a shelf about 6 feet from the [ Continue Reading ]

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