News, Bill Would Restrict Tanning For Teens. (color, girls, salons)

[John1960]

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma lawmaker has filed a bill that would limit access to tanning facilities for kids younger than 17.

Under the bill, children younger than 13 would be prohibited from using tanning facilities without a permission slip from a doctor and the presence at the tanning facility of a parent or guardian.

Bill Would Restrict Tanning For Teens - Health News Story - KCCI Des Moines (http://www.kcci.com/health/18468764/detail.html - broken link)

[SlickRick1]

Good idea, I dated a girl back in the early nineties who used to live in those damn tanning salons. She never wore the goggles back then either. She used to be able to pull (what would look like rubber) from her eyes like elastic. Very gross. If that is not a sign of bad things, I dont know what is. I seen her a couple of years ago and she looked so old. Her skin looked like a leather belt. So gross.
These things are very dangerous. They expose people at a very high risk of cancer as well as other things. They should be outlawed. People want to look good now and are neglecting future problems...

[MonaLisaVito]

Who allows a 13-15 year old to tan anyway?

How is it that 13-15 year olds are able to go to the tanning salon. They don't have cars. The parents would have to drive them there. And even if a friend took them, wouldn't the parent notice that they were tan the next day.

[sunnie741]

It's about time. I predict that soon they will have warning labels on tanning beds much like cigarettes do stating that tanning can cause cancer!! I hope this bill goes to a national level.

[JetJockey]

Bah. I've never done the 'tan' thing, I think artificially dark skin is very unattractive. Since I have a couple thousand dollars invested in skin artwork, I stay as pale as I can, keeps the color crisper, longer. I can't imagine someone letting their 13 year old child tan!

[scorpy01]

Originally Posted by MonaLisaVito

Who allows a 13-15 year old to tan anyway?

How is it that 13-15 year olds are able to go to the tanning salon. They don't have cars. The parents would have to drive them there. And even if a friend took them, wouldn't the parent notice that they were tan the next day.

My daughter's friend was required by her mom to spend time at a tanning bed before their beach vacation last summer. The girl didn't want to go but her mom insisted. I couldn't believe it!

My daughter just turned 16 and most of her friends have been to tanning salons for the past few years. I'm the mean/unreasonable/cruel mother who won't budge on this issue, so my poor kid is pale year round.

I just don't get some parents.

[TabulaRasa]

Tanning sucks and taking your kids to tan is negligent, IMO.

[SlickRick1]

Originally Posted by scorpy01

My daughter's friend was required by her mom to spend time at a tanning bed before their beach vacation last summer. The girl didn't want to go but her mom insisted. I couldn't believe it!

My daughter just turned 16 and most of her friends have been to tanning salons for the past few years. I'm the mean/unreasonable/cruel mother who won't budge on this issue, so my poor kid is pale year round.

I just don't get some parents.

In ten or more years, your kids will thank you for it. Her friends will look ten to fifteen years older then what they will be. Dont give in, keep doing what your doing. In ten or fifteen years, your kids friends will envy your daughters beautiful healthy skin.

[TabulaRasa]

Honestly, I get compliments on my skin all the time, how youthful it is, etc. compared to other women my age (early thirties), many of whom came of age with the advent of recreational use of booth and bed tanning. It doesn't take very long for the effects of that kind of skin abuse to be super apparent. Shockingly little time, actually. It's not like, "Oh, when you're old, you'll get paper bag skin." The effects are visible MUCH earlier than these girls realize. Wanna look haggard by thirty? Keep tanning.

[Padgett2]

Oh, Dear!!! I suppose that the next thing will be for those of us that live near the coast that we can't spend the day at the beach., or out in the boat. The young children might get sunburned.

Yes, my skin looks old. That's what happens when you live in the South and stay out in the sun a lot. If you don't take care of your skin, it gets dried out, has skin cancers, etc.

Maybe we should have a law that all people, male and female, use a good slathering of skin cream at least once a day.

Seriously, People come down here for a vacation with white, unexposed skin. They blister and burn the first day and the vacation is runined. A session or two in the tanning booth would have prevented some of that sort of damage.