Why has it taken 30 years for the health experts to decide how bad tanning beds are for you?
Mar,28
at12:01 pm
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Now after about 30 years they are all of a sudden saying tanning beds are as bad as cigarettes? There is no way it took that long to determine that, so what is the deal? I’m kind of mad about it since they said tanning beds were safer than getting in the sun for so long and everyone trusted them!
There have been reports of tanning beds increasing cancer rates for years. I heard that the 1st time before I had any friends that fake baked (probably 10 years ago). I don’t think most people care if it is not as safe though because you see people outside sunbathing and they go to tanning beds when it starts getting too cold. I would also wonder-why you would trust them so much when the problem with the sun is too much UV exposure and tanning beds tan you using UV bulbs-that’s why you are supposed to wear the eye protection. As far as taking so long, if you are going to do a lot of high quality studies that mean something-they take time (especially if you are looking at cancer rates because cancer can take years to develop) and money.
There have been reports of tanning beds increasing cancer rates for years. I heard that the 1st time before I had any friends that fake baked (probably 10 years ago). I don’t think most people care if it is not as safe though because you see people outside sunbathing and they go to tanning beds when it starts getting too cold. I would also wonder-why you would trust them so much when the problem with the sun is too much UV exposure and tanning beds tan you using UV bulbs-that’s why you are supposed to wear the eye protection. As far as taking so long, if you are going to do a lot of high quality studies that mean something-they take time (especially if you are looking at cancer rates because cancer can take years to develop) and money.
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It took several thousand years of smoking tobacco for society to realize that smoking was bad for your health. When you look at it like that, 30 years doesn’t seem like such a long time.
The problem is that once something has been deemed "safe", there’s no reason for anyone to conduct studies on its actual safety. Since people weren’t coming out of tanning beds with extra appendages or massive burns, and since they hadn’t been around long enough for the effects to be seen (cancer does not happen right away, it takes time with tanning beds just like with sun exposure) they seemed safe enough.
It wasn’t until they had been around for 15, 20, 25 years that women who had been frequenting them suddenly showed a spike in melanomas and other skin cancers, and it made doctors collectively scratch their heads and say, "Hmmm… is there a connection between how much tanning bed exposure these women have, and their cancer?" Turns out there is. Now melanoma is rapidly on the rise, in younger and younger people (particularly women) and it’s because they have spent the past decade in the tanning bed thinking there were no consequences.
I personally think it’s a matter of common sense. Of course tanning beds are bad for you, they’re a modified version of the same ultraviolet rays that cause burns and cancer when you lay out in the sun, only more concentrated. Ten minutes in a tanning bed is equivalent to something like 4 hours in the sun without sunscreen. How could anybody actually think that was good for them, even without the medical community railing against them? But that’s just me.
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Everything is bad for you according to someone.
Next thing it will be OK again and breathing will have bad side effects.
Live life to Enjoy it don’t listen to all the rubbish you here.
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