Tanning Informative Speech
I want you to immerse yourself and shut your eyes for a moment. Imagine that you had your yearly check-up and you receive a call from your doctor two weeks later. You’re really anxious to find out what’s wrong, and he tells you that you have Stage 0 or Stage 1 and 2 of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. Visualize what your reaction would be, whether it’s anger, sadness, hopelessness, or grief. Many people have been through life-changing experiences like this. Although you have a decently good chance of surviving skill illnesses or skin cancer, nonetheless, you should still try and stay away from things that are bad for your skin, including tanning beds. After examining the causes and effects of artificial tanning beds, it will
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As of January 5, 2016, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon,* Texas, Vermont, Washington are the only states in America that have banned indoor tanning for minors younger than 18 years (the states with an asterisk around them have allowed adolescents to tan with a doctor’s prescription) (Indoor Tanning Is Not Safe 1). This is potentially a good thing because most teens who go indoor tanning don’t do research about it to find out if it’s bad, by having a state-wide ban, students are not at risk of gaining skin illnesses earlier than expected.By now, you’ve probably realized that Missouri is not on the list of states that have banned indoor tanning, and maybe this should change because we don’t need or want more illnesses than we already have. If the state of Missouri does not administrate a statewide ban, then perhaps a good idea would be to tax indoor tanning. The country of America already has a 10% tanning bed tax that was implemented in 2010, but perhaps Missouri could add, lets say, an additional 5% tax to discourage indoor tanning even more, and to make some money to help projects across the state and such. More and more states are starting to recognize indoor tanning as a harmful thing, and this is good because we as a nation could really suppress indoor tanning and its
As of January 5, 2016, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon,* Texas, Vermont, Washington are the only states in America that have banned indoor tanning for minors younger than 18 years (the states with an asterisk around them have allowed adolescents to tan with a doctor’s prescription) (Indoor Tanning Is Not Safe 1). This is potentially a good thing because most teens who go indoor tanning don’t do research about it to find out if it’s bad, by having a state-wide ban, students are not at risk of gaining skin illnesses earlier than expected.By now, you’ve probably realized that Missouri is not on the list of states that have banned indoor tanning, and maybe this should change because we don’t need or want more illnesses than we already have. If the state of Missouri does not administrate a statewide ban, then perhaps a good idea would be to tax indoor tanning. The country of America already has a 10% tanning bed tax that was implemented in 2010, but perhaps Missouri could add, lets say, an additional 5% tax to discourage indoor tanning even more, and to make some money to help projects across the state and such. More and more states are starting to recognize indoor tanning as a harmful thing, and this is good because we as a nation could really suppress indoor tanning and its