Tanning Salons

**sparks19** · 03-28-2007, 10:21 AM

Ugh... it always makes me sad to hear ads about these places....

The radio station I listen has a lady in the afternoon that rants and raves about a tanning salon in the area.... she says she goes all the time and everyone should check this place out....

AHHHHHHHH don't people realize how DANGEROUS these things are

She says "don't punish people with your white legs." I would rather have white legs than skin cancer

**columbine** · 03-28-2007, 10:30 AM

There's been a dramatic increase in melanoma among people under 18. Aren't tanning salons supposed to check IDs? Well, even if they're supposed to, they haven't been.

It's funny, melanoma used to be a poor people's illness, first among sailors and farmers and then railroad and construction laborers. Now they all wear sunscreen, and it's an urban fashion-slave disease.

Love, Columbine

**kimlovescats** · 03-28-2007, 10:51 AM

I have tried and tried to convince my daughter (Amy Beth) how dangerous they are, yet she still goes!

**animal_rescue** · 03-28-2007, 10:57 AM

The tanning salons here don't let anyone under 18 go unless a parent signs them up. After a parent signs you up then you can go whenever you make the appointment. I'm signed up but really I'm not doing it until Prom and maybe I'll go like 5-6 times. Honestly I'm afraid of them ever since I saw "Final Destination 3".

**catnapper** · 03-28-2007, 11:01 AM

I personally am proud of my pasty whiteness. Skin cancer is too prevalent in my family to actually expose myself to the sun and sunlamps.

**sparks19** · 03-28-2007, 11:25 AM

HMMMM I didn't know some places required you to be over 18... that's good as long as they are checking ID's

I am already at risk for skin cancer after a terrible burn when I was in grade 4. I am a red head with freckles.... the sun and I are NOT friends.

Plus I see these ladies that are in their 30's... their skin looks like leather and look about 60.... scary.

Yeah my husband has a client that is a dermatology clinic and the stories he has heard.... a 15 year old girl with melanomas... frightening.

**columbine** · 03-28-2007, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by catnapper

I personally am proud of my pasty whiteness. Skin cancer is too prevalent in my family to actually expose myself to the sun and sunlamps.

"Pasty whiteness" was long considered a mark of beauty, a sure sign that someone was too refined (read: rich) to have to labor out in the sun. Many old-fashioned names use "white" as a metaphor for "unearthly beauty." Guinevere means "white phantom." Many girls are still named Pearl and Lily to this day.

Love, Columbine