Please use spray tanning and sunscreen as a way to preserve your youth and possibly save your life. The price you pay for a temporary suntan is too high…
Check out this interesting and scary article from last year published on 4/12/2012 By The Skin Cancer Foundation:
“Melanoma Soars in Young Adults
A new study has revealed an alarming rise in melanoma among people aged 18 to 39: over the past 40 years, rates of this potentially deadly skin cancer grew by 800 percent among young women and 400 percent among young men. Researchers examined data on the 256 young adults in Olmstead County, MN, who were diagnosed with melanoma between 1970 and 2009. Between 1970 and 1979, just 16 new cases, or 4.8 cases per 100,000 people, were diagnosed. But in the decade ending December 31, 2009, 129 cases were recorded, an incidence rate of 30.8 cases per 100,000 people — an enormous jump from the 1970’s. Continue reading article at…”
www.skincancer.org/prevention/tanning