Do you use a tanning bed on a regular basis? If you do, please stop. A new study says that if you banned minors from tanning beds you would save thousands of lives.
Is anyone shocked by this? Did you know if you use a tanning bed before the age of 35 on a regular basis that you increase your chances of getting melanoma by 59%. Yeah, you read that right. That stat alone makes me not want to even look at a tanning bed.
Melanoma is by far the deadliest form of skin cancer, and odds are that you know someone who has gotten it.
According to Cosmo the new study says: “For the study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated the impact of the ban among the 61 million U.S. kids who are 14 or younger. They determined that barring minors from using tanning beds would prevent almost 62,000 cases of melanoma, 6,700 melanoma deaths, and $343 million in treatment costs. A total ban on indoor tanning — fat chance, but a girl can dream — could prevent nearly 203,000 melanoma cases and 23,000 melanoma deaths, and save $1.1 billion in melanoma treatment costs.”
That stat blows our mind. Please don’t go use tanning beds. PLEASE DON’T!
