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 ]