I've always been an outdoor person and would get a tan regardless, and I did stretch out in the sun with baby oil slathered on. I think it was a phase people were going through at the time. I started reading so much about skin cancer that I stopped the tanning but spending hours in the sun every day I would tan anyway. I've never had a burn though although I am as fair skinned as can be and blond. After realizing the dangers of too much sun I tried to avoid long exposures. Today I can't go in the sun even 5 minutes without getting too weak to move.
Just this year our city has banned tanning salons for any person under the age of 18, I thought it was a great move as most teens don't give skin cancer a second thought. I would never use those tanning beds myself but have friends who go every week in winter before they leave for warmer destinations. I do know a few who have had suspicious moles and lesions removed but they still tan and use tanning beds...
Glad I stopped getting all that sun yrs ago, who knows how things could have turned out.