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Behind That Healthy Glow
Wall Street Journal
Odd as it sounds, the high season for New York's tanning joints runs between May and July 4, when the amateurs want to get tan enough to go tanning in public. Come winter, salons are eager to generate a little revenue to pay off those $40000 beds.

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Cancer - Know Your Chances
AllAfrica.com
Tanning, including exposure to tanning lamps and beds, also puts you at risk. Moles: People who have many moles or abnormal moles are at increased risk of skin cancer. These abnormal moles - which look irregular and are generally larger than normal ...

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Bill would bar Arizona minors from artificial-tanning beds
Arizona Daily Star
There, customers lie on a bed that exposes them to ultraviolet light. PHOENIX - As a mother of five, Rep. Peggy Judd says she understands why that bronze glow offered by tanning beds is so appealing to teens heading to proms or dance recitals.
Report rips indoor tanning outlets for misleading teensUSA TODAY

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Jeff Manes: Tan shop owner likes wide open spaces of Lake Village
Post-Tribune
Some dermatologists recommend tanning; tanning beds can help with eczema, dry skin and acne.” Ashley Muller is friendly and easy to talk to. She did yell at me once, though. It was after our interview, when she noticed all the fluorescent bulbs from ...

Bill would bar Arizona salons from letting teens in tanning beds
Arizona Capitol Times
Peggy Judd said she understands why that bronze glow offered by tanning beds is so appealing to teens heading to proms or dance recitals. But she also looks with worry at studies suggesting that exposure to intense ultraviolet rays can lead to melanoma ...

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Effects of Tanning Beds Harmful
Patch.com
She hears the sound to justify the switch that turns on the UVA radiation to heat projecting bulbs that burn the skin: the tanning bed. The UVA radiation in tanning bed bulbs is up to three times more intense than UVA in natural sunlight, ...

Tanning beds a 'deadly carcinogen'
Interlake Spectator
In addition to having warning labels affixed to the tanning equipment this bill will require that large warning labels also be placed in all commercial establishment providing artificial tanning. "The old bulbs (used in tanning beds) were five times ...

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Making Dickinson Glow
Dickinson Press
They offer four lay-down tanning beds and one stand-up booth. “It looks like I'm going to have to get another stand-up bed,” Barta-Robison said. “Everybody wants the stand-up bed.” The stand-up bed takes less time, has stronger bulbs and more of them, ...

What You Should Know About Tanning Beds
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Tanning beds up your skin cancer risk. An eight-year study of regular tanning-bed use was associated with a 55 percent increase in the risk of developing melanoma, especially in women between the ages of 20 and 29. 2. UV emissions from tanning lamps ...

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To tan, or not to tan?
The Columbian
The agency, which is part of the World Health Organization, reclassified the beds into the highest cancer risk category: “carcinogenic to humans.” But John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said the tanning bed bulbs ...

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