Study reveals that Tanning bed usage increases chances of cancer by up to 71%

Uncategorized — By Ryan on May 29, 2010 1:18 pm

For years and years I’ve heard the bullshit spew out of advocates for tanning salons, well it’s time for them to swallow their own crap now and come to terms that they have been peddling death all along as pretty much any common sense person would have suspected.

According to a study that will appear in the June issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention:

People who spent more than 50 hours tanning indoors had a threefold increase in risk, compared to people who never used a tanning bed, after adjusting for known risk factors for the deadly skin cancer.

Although the Tanning Industry is spouting it’s classic rhetoric that tanning may actually prevent skin cancer it is clear that science and research is stacking up against it as last year, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) weighed in, concluding that indoor tanning does cause melanoma.

People who spent more than 50 hours tanning indoors had a threefold increase in risk, compared to people who never used a tanning bed, after adjusting for known risk factors for the deadly skin cancer.

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