I recently read an article involving teens who are addicted to having tan skin. More specifically, these teens are addicted to going to the tanning booths that provide them with their dark skin. Samantha Hessel is a high school that regularly attended tanning booths multiple times a week. Her reasoning was fairly simplistic in the mind frame of a teenager, who was definitely not considering for a second that there could be risks involved. However, after multiple times a week and many months, Samantha eventually did encounter a problem – Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. It developed from a mole on her leg. There is currently a battle between the Indoor Tanning Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics committee. Should teens be banned from going to tanning booths? It basically concentrated UVA rays which equals more than 10 times the power of sitting outside in the regular sunlight. There is question as to whether teens are old enough to consider the risks. I feel that teens should most certainly be banned from attending these booths. The price of damaging the body over a darker skin color is hardly worth it.
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