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Tanning Beds/Salons: A Perfect Storm Is Brewing
Vincent A. DeLeo
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
As all of us in Dermatology know, artificial tanning is ubiquitous in the USA. There are over 30 million users and about 25% of teenage girls and young women claim to have tanned in the last year. We also know that most of us constantly warn of the side effects that can be caused by tanning at the beach or in the salon. Obviously this approach has not worked.
But now it appears that a “storm” over this issue may be brewing and there is a chance that, as Len Lichtenfeld, MD, the Deputy Medical Director in the national office of the American Cancer Society recently wrote in his blog, “Maybe It’s Time to Ban the Tan”.
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