The sun has a tough competition now and hereafter. His monopoly in the area of tanning is fiercely questioned. The indoor tanning industry is marching ahead to an unprecedented boom. It is a gigantic business in USA with over 20,000 tanning salons being opened and established since 1970.
When there were a number of research findings suggesting that sun tanning was bad for the skin, that initially provided a boost to the indoor tanning industry. It obviously IS clear that extreme amounts of outdoor tanning are bad of r the skin and cause cancer.
Of course there have been similar reports about indoor-caused skin cancer, but there is a definite advantage in the argument in favor of the tanning salons. Indoor tanning often does not lead to the BURNING that can be said to be responsible for much of the damage that eventually leads to cancer and premature aging. Safe users of indoor tanning only use a small fraction of the rays required to burn and damage skin, and so it can be argued that there is little chance of it causing skin cancer. Those committed to salons are undeterred, and so the boom started when the cancer scare began continues largely unaffected.
But this might be in spite of some of the better facts and medical recommendations. Both the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Dermatology warn tanners of all kinds against both sun tans and indoor tans, and definitely if they are merely for the purposes of looks alone. One of their arguments is that these facilities should not be able to be accessed by minor children, whose skin is still forming and who don't have the ability to weigh the risks for themselves. They feel also that they should be a clear warning put up in the salon giving the details of the risks there are of using the salons, proven and unproven.
But actually, what is certain is less that totally clear. In fact, due to just these risks, tanning salons are banned in some states in the U.S. While they are preventing young women from visiting these tanning salons to achieve superior looks of beauty, those laws are neither strictly applied nor do they seem to have clear benefits,
Whatever the case, safe and unsafe tanning should be the responsibility of everyone involved. Salon owners, parents and teachers of minors should inform young people of the science behind what happens when they tan themselves so that they will make more informed decisions. Local and state governments should continue to remain involved.
And methods for safe tanning should continue to be the subject of further research and study. It is quite possible that with technology improving every day there will be the ability in the future to completely eliminate the risks while still giving women the looks that they feel are such an improvement. Even currently, there are compromise answers such as spray-on tans that have the benefits of a tan without any risks, for those that are concerned about it.
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