Should Minors Be Allowed to Use Tanning Beds?
SodaHead News
2012/05/10 22:00:00
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In the wake of controversy surrounding Patricia Krentcil, who was accused of putting her 6-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, New York lawmakers are contemplating an outright ban on the use of tanning booths for minors. But Krentcil's case isn't the only reason it's being considered. Officials say they're concerned about teen use, particularly around prom, and the 72 percent increase in melanoma that The American Cancer Society has reported over the last decade.
A similar law was proposed in Chicago by Alderman Debra Silverstein, who told CBS, "When I saw this news story about [Krentcil] on the news, I was like, we really have to do something. We have laws against selling cigarettes to minors, because it causes cancer, and tanning in the tanning beds causes cancer." Unfortunately for much of the nation, Snooki is over 18, so she'll be allowed to continue tanning regardless. But is the proposed ban taking it too far?
A similar law was proposed in Chicago by Alderman Debra Silverstein, who told CBS, "When I saw this news story about [Krentcil] on the news, I was like, we really have to do something. We have laws against selling cigarettes to minors, because it causes cancer, and tanning in the tanning beds causes cancer." Unfortunately for much of the nation, Snooki is over 18, so she'll be allowed to continue tanning regardless. But is the proposed ban taking it too far?
Top Opinion
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Joanna the Great 2012/05/10 23:12:58
Those dinguses cause skin cancer and it's damn hard to cure (especially in an advanced stage). The mortality rate is high.
Young children can't comprehend the dangers of a tanning booth, parents must forbid them to use one, until they grow up and learm all the facts about skin cancer.
Using a tanning bed before the age of 35 increases the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, by 75 percent. If adults want to risk killing themselves fine. While the majority of parents take care of their children the above link indicates there are some that don't have the intelligence of a rat. There are laws protecting children from child abuse. What the woman in the above article did is child abuse. Not only did she allow but actually helped her daughter to expose herself to a life threatening disease. Children need to be protected from parents like this. Banning minors from tanning beds is a law against this kind of child abuse.
*I meant to press 'YES'*
Why is it that so many people feel justified in telling others how to live their lives?
You want to control the children of others then I suggest you have issues.
Our young girls and boys need to be taught that being themselves is beautiful, and I know I'm sounding like a middle school motivational speaker but it's true!
But since the world has an obsession with being tan, and an outright ban is unlikely to happen, then I suppose if tanning beds aren't going to be banned for everyone, why just let the adults get "skin cancer?" Minors should get that lovely right too, but AT LEAST restrict it to maybe 16 and up. (Honestly, I figure if a teen is old enough to drive, which can also be deadly, they can make the decision to tan). I mean, if you take a teen's "right to tan" away, they will just go fry in the sun to get dark, which I don't imagine is much more safe.
You have to be at least as dumb as your average smoker to subject your body to one of these machines.
The results are just as predictable, if not more so.
It should be up the the owners of tanning salons to make the rules and the parents to take control of what their children do.
And the government would love to stop people getting cancer so many times.