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JEDIPUNK

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. - Bob Dylan
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Indoor tanning booths can quadruple your skin cancer risk

Seeded on Fri May 28, 2010 8:54 AM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: blogs.consumerreports.org
health, cancer, fda, skin-cancer, tanning, tanning-beds, melonoma
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Eager to soak up the sun, or at least look like they have, some folks are getting their bronze on early—indoors. But indoor tanning beds can increase the risk of melanoma up to four times, according to a new study released by the American Association for Cancer Research. The bottom line: Melanoma risk goes up with frequent indoor tanning, regardless of how old people are when they start using tanning beds.

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I believe it was in the UK that tanning-beds got cancer categorization equivalent of smoking cigarettes. (I don't know the exact terminology)

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