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    Next Frontier in the Move to Ban Tanning Beds

    Australia cracks down on indoor tanning amid global push to cut skin-cancer rates

    By Rachel Pannett | The Wall Street Journal 5 hours ago

    Getty Images/Getty Images - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 01: A general view is seen of large

    numbers of people on Bondi beach on December 1, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. Temperatures in the high 30s

    have seen people flock to beaches to seek relief from the heat. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

    SydneyWhile public-health officials in the U.S. consider placing warnings about cancer risk ontanning beds, authorities in Australia are going much further to discourage their use: They arebanning the devices altogether.

    Australian officials say the crackdown is a response to the country having some of the highestskin-cancer rates in the world.Skin cancer accounts for over 80% of all new cases of cancerdiagnosed in the country each year, according to Australia's Cancer Council, and caused more than2,000 deaths in 2011, the latest available data.

    The move places Australia among the leaders in a global push to tighten regulation ofindoor-tanning devices that world health authorities place in the same cancer-risk category as exposure toasbestos or tobacco smoking. Many governments, including some U.S. states like California and

    Vermont, have restricted use of tanning beds by minors. And Brazil has outlawed tanning bedsaltogether.

    In the U.S., federal health regulators in May moved to tighten oversight of tanning beds and saidpeople younger than age 18 shouldn't use the beds at all.

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    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's proposed order would require manufacturers to placewarnings on tanning beds and promotional material. Skin cancer accounts for nearly half of allcancers in the U.S., according to federal data analyzed for a 2010 study in the journal JAMADermatology. The incidence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has been rapidlyincreasing, especially in people younger than 30.

    In the latest move to restrict use of tanning beds, lawmakers in Australia's Victoria state this monthapproved a ban on the devices in salons that will be enforced from the end of next year.

    "The clear weight of medical evidence supports a ban," said David Davis, Victoria's health minister. Arecent study cited by theVictoria government estimated 1 in 6 melanomas in Australiansbetween 18 and 29 years old would be prevented if all tanning salons were closed down.Neighboring state New South Wales, whose capital is Sydney, outlawed the devices last year,effective at the end of 2014. In total, five of Australia's eight states and territories, say they plan toban tanning beds altogether by 2015.

    Indoor tanning in Australia soared in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s,especially among people under 30 years of age, despite the country being one of theworld's sunniest countries with famous beaches like Sydney's Bondi. Salon numbers havefallen more recently after several medical studies drew a link between use of tanning devices and

    skin cancer, along with other health issues like premature aging and eye damage.

    In Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city and Victoria's capital, the number of salons increased by600% in the decade through 2006. Since 2008, though, when the government prohibited peopleyounger than age 18 from using tanning beds, the number of salons has fallen by 67%.

    The World Health Organization rates ultraviolet radiation from tanning beds as a Class 1 carcinogen,putting the devices on a par with cigarettes and exposure to harmful chemicals or X-ray radiation.Brazil became the first country to ban the devices in 2009, soon after the WHO published its report.

    Victoria's move has sparked a backlash from tanning business owners.

    "It's a lot safer than going out in the sun. In a solarium, people aren't getting sunburned, they're in acontrolled environment where they can control how much UV they get," said Paul Cannon, who ownsa tanning business, Body Bronze, in the suburb of Port Melbourne.

    Some Australian lawmakers who support the ban foresee problems. Colleen Hartland, a member ofVictoria's parliament for the Greens party, feared salons in Victoria would react by rushing to sell thebeds to the public. In New South Wales, the devices were offered at deeply discounted prices ononline auction sites after that state outlawed the devices.

    "This creates the dangerous situation where any person can buy a powerful tanning bed and operateit at home with no supervision or know how," Ms. Hartland said.

    Mr. Davis, the health minister, said discussions were under way with salons on the safe disposal ofthe beds. There are currently more than 100 firms licensed to operate nearly 400 tanning bedsthroughout Victoria, according to the state government.

    Tanning Taboos

    Brazil and some Australian states have banned indoor tanning beds. Some places restrict their use byminors, including:

    United Kingdom

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    Germany

    France

    Some Canadian provinces

    Some U.S. states, including California and Vermont

    Source: CDC

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/next-frontier-move-ban-tanning-225400839.html

    Caucasians cant be in the sun to long without a lotion on their skin to help against the UV rays. They

    inherit recessive genes, which cause them to be pale skinned in an Albino state. Examples are what

    could happen below.

    BLISTERS

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    BURN MARKS FROM BEING IN THE SUN

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    It is a medical fact that Caucasians lack Melanin therefore their genetic makeup is not normal to

    produce Melanin, coming from their own books!

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    As you can see its pertaining to a Caucasian person.

    This Caucasian female is being looked at for moles on her chest, which you can see moles there.

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    As you can see the different types of moles of Cancer starters in the picture below.