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Lawmakers To Protect Teens From Leathery Skin, Cancer
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New York, 4:51 AM
Sat Nov 28
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I also wear SPF 75 everyday and walk to work with a parasol in the summer time. I don't mess around. I'm Irish, so my options are pale or crispy red. I choose pale.
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My options are: cooked lobster insides (fleshy, slightly squishy, brilliantly white) or cooked lobster outsides (crusty, livid red, achingly hot.)
I choose lobster insides.
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I'm all for personal liberties, but the fact is the government does have an interest in protecting the health of minors who may be too immature to make their own decisions. That's why you can't drink, can't smoke, and need parental consent for tattoos, piercings, etc. I understand there is a slippery slope argument to be made, but when something is proven to be this dangerous, then we need to do something about it.
I posted this in a thread a week or so ago, but it's relevant still, and so terrible I must inflict on others. It's an Australian skin cancer ad, and it haunts my dreams:
03/26/09
at the very least, if bars have to post a notice warning of the dangers of drinking while pregnant, tanning salons should have to post warnings of the dangers of tanning.
03/26/09
I am 23, and am awaiting the results of a biopsy of a strange bump on my back. I also used tanning booths for one summer during my teen years.
Not sure if there's a correlation or not (we are pale-as-snow Nordic-folk), but I've gotta say, I'm fully in favor of preventative measures to keep other people from going through this, even if it is something as simple as parental consent.
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Okay, this is really scary for me. I've always lived in a sunny climate and gotten tan every summer just from being outside, but for one month in high school I went to a tanning booth. Like, a LOT, because they had this stupid flat rate - $30 for a month of unlimited use - so I went all the time to "get my money's worth". So stupid.
But I am getting a skin cancer screening for the first time in a couple of weeks. I am really nervous for what they'll find, but I hope it'll be okay. I can't believe your sister got it at 17, after just tanning for 3 months??!! That is so awful.
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I'm just punchy because I discovered an all-day every-day 24/7/365 SPF lotion that doesn't drive me batshit insane. I usually don't love dousing my pale-ass Scandinavian skin in buckets of SPF 234,890, but I did it dutifully despite feeling gross. I just found out that Aveeno makes a nice SPF15 lotion that I don't even feel and I love it.
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*This isn't my line of thinking anymore, but it certainly was in high school.
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I don't know. I'm on the side that agrees with not letting teens of a certain age tan in the beds.
And really, the beach is sooo much nicer!
But seriously, my dad had a brief fight with skin cancer too..SUNSCREEN PEOPLE!!!!
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Burns eventually turn into nice tans...and wrinkles! Bonus!
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Now that I'm in my 20's, I stopped smoking and I stopped tanning. I wear sunblock SPF 30 every single day. Rain or shine. Winter or summer. And I'm really angry I didn't start doing it sooner...
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The thing is, I started tanning when I was 14. My mom was a compulsive tanner until she had a mole removed, and she took me with her to tan. I loved it, and still do: it's really relaxing and warm, and in northern Michigan, it's not like you're getting a lot of vitamin D. Plus, even though I hold a tan for a pretty long time (half Greek, and all) I'm ghosty, scary white by March. Not pretty.
My point, though, that if the mom/parent is tanning... 10 to 1 the kid's going to get consent. It's not really going to prevent the kid from tanning.
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Trust me, not happening in the winter.
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Trust me. I've done extensive research on this, because I was going batshit crazy until I found out that it wasn't me, it was a fairly severe vitamin D-deficiency.
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