There are lots ways of getting a beautiful glowing tan that make you feel good and look good not only in summer but all year round but there are also dangers of getting this healthy tanned look.
Sun beds.
Lots of sun beds are coin operated these days with no supervision these can be found in every city on nearly every high street, there is nothing or no one telling you or allowing you are only to use them for a limited amount of time and certainly no one stopping teenagers from using them as often as they like and for as long as they like. They do provide machines for you to purchase goggles, the only piece of safety equipment they expect you to use, but only if you want to the choice is up to you. Sun screen protection is not used on sunbeds.
Experts have found that on average some sun beds in England emit harmful radiation that is more than twice as high as the recommended safe level.
Sun beds are twice as likely to cause cancer.
Even in so short a time as a 10 minute session maybe twice a week is more likely to cause skin cancer than spending time in the heat of the sun between the hours of midday and 3 in the Mediterranean.
Over a 100 deaths a year and over 370 reported new cases of malignant skin cancer are caused by the use of sun beds.
Cancer research UK has lobbied parliament along with the help of people such as Julia morgan former mp for Cardiff north and Nicola Roberts girls aloud star amongst others and the sunbeds regulations act to help protect our young came into force on the 8th of april 2011 stopping under 18’s from accessing sunbeds, this being the first and most important piece of legislation, it now just needs to be acted on and all unsupervised tanning shops closed down by local councils.
A survey done by cancer reaserarch uk in England found that on average over six per cent of 11-17 year olds used sunbeds. In specific areas such as Liverpool and Sunderland girls aged between 15-17 using sunbeds