Skin Cancer
Public health skin cancer prevention policies should prohibit UV tanning advertising to minors
Published in Cancer Weekly, June 5th, 2006
According to a recent article published in the journal Archives of Dermatology, scientists in the United States conducted a study "to examine the increasing use of UV tanning parlors by adolescents, despite the World Health Organization recommendation that no one under the age of 18 years use UV tanning devices. We examined tanning advertisements in a sample of public high school newspapers published between 2001 and 2005 in 3 Colorado counties encompassing the Denver metropolitan area."
"Tanning advertisements appeared in newspapers from 11 (48%)...
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