Sentence examples for using a tanning bed from inspiring English sources
Ms. Choit buys the posters online and then partly fades them, using a tanning bed, lamps and other skin-darkening products.
Last year, a bill was introduced in California that would, among other things, ban anyone under sixteen from using a tanning bed.
The F.D.A. also proposed new preventive measures for adults, including that they sign a document before using a tanning bed saying that they understand the risks.
A World Health Organization study showed that using a tanning bed just one time increases the risk of melanoma by 15 percent.
Dr. Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, the medical director of the Melanoma and Skin Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said there was clear evidence that using a tanning bed increased the risk of melanoma.
About 30 other states have laws that place limits on indoor tanning for children and teenagers, but California's new law will be the strictest in the nation, prohibiting any minor from using a tanning bed, even with a parent's permission.
[New York Post] After the recent charge that a New Jersey mother took her 6-year-old daughter to use a tanning bed, activists there want the use of tanning salons illegal for people under age 18.
According to Idaho's Youth Risk Behavior survey, 30 percent of high school girls had used a tanning bed in the previous 12 months, and Ms. Moran said data showed that 4 percent of 11th-grade girls used tanning beds 40 or more times a year.
It found that among the high school students, 30 percent had used a tanning bed in the previous year, and 17 percent had reported doing so at least 10 times, which was considered frequent use.
Though I have never used a tanning bed, my dermatologist said I had an unlucky trio of risk factors: fair skin and blue eyes, an upbringing in Texas, where I spent long days in the sun growing up, and a family history of skin cancer.
And while there's also rapid growth among young white women ages 15 to 34 (40 percent of 18-year-old women have used a tanning bed in the last year, compared to 8 percent of men, according to the American Academy of Dermatology), nearly twice as many men as women die of skin cancer each year.
