Group pushes for teen tanning ban - 1 views
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Emili Davis on 07 Jan 13A lot of money will be lost if this is followed through with and alot of angry girls under the age of 18
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joecarbis on 08 Jan 13Tanning causes skin cancer. This will benefit health and prevent girls from looking like basketballs
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patrick boian on 08 Jan 13if people want to increase the chance of getting skin cancer then they should be allowed to tan because its a choice just like anything else
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Dylan Garner on 08 Jan 13I think that its more of a personal choice and if parent let their kids do it so be it. I don't see anything wrong with it.
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Bryan Pregon on 08 Jan 13Not sure of my opinion on this topic yet, but I thought this was an ironic statement... "Doctors, however, said it's not about the money. It's about health." It seems more and more, those two issues are tangled up in our health care debates.
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gharvey949 on 08 Jan 13I totally agree with Joe!
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jessicavaldez on 08 Jan 13Tanning= Skin Cancer I also think that it is their choice they know the risks and It would cause a lot of controversy over money and lets admit white is not cute
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Dylan Garner on 09 Jan 13Racist^
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Payton Whiteaker on 09 Jan 13Brushing your teeth = Weakens you enamel. Should we ban teens from brushing their teeth simply because it can harm them? It's (in my opinion) a matter of choice.
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Mallory Huggins on 09 Jan 13"You just didn't want to stick out in a crowd being white" That's the problem right there. We've got a bunch of teenage girls, whose reasoning capabilities aren't fully developed and who quite literally aren't as capable of comprehending long term effects as adults are who have been convinced that it isn't okay to look like themselves. Our society has been convinced to believe that normal, or natural, can't be attractive. Society convinces women that to be attractive they have to be tan and then offers them an easy way to become tan. A way which, incidentally, causes cancer. But teenagers don't comprehend the risks well, and are only concerned with trying to make themselves attractive. And let's just admit it, orange is not cute.
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Mallory Huggins on 09 Jan 13Also, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think cancer might be a little worse than possibly having weaker enamel.
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joecarbis on 09 Jan 13@Peyton you cant even compare this to brushing your teeth. Brushing your teeth gives you way more benefits over a "weak enamel" I'd rather have a weak enamel rather than have brown teeth with holes in them, and i'd rather be white and cancer free than look like an old leathery football.
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jessicavaldez on 09 Jan 13Im not racist. but pale is not cute that's why so many people tan.
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Melissa Diaz-Aguilera on 11 Jan 13You should have gone with pale is not cute in the first place, and that would just be weird if everyone tanned. Everyone would look the same in a way.
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garrett lee on 14 Jan 13i think if your tanning the its at your own risk. its not like people haven't heard what could happen if they tan
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Ryan Loye on 14 Jan 13tanning beds are an unnatural way to tan and people should just wait till summer to tan again but either way tanning in the summer outside or in a bed is still dangerous and will lead to someone getting skin cancer.
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Natalie Wilson on 14 Jan 13Going back to Jessica's comment: I'm a pale teenage girl, but I'm perfectly content with my skin color. Other girls, however, aren't and it's comments like that that force young girls to tan and be at a higher risk of getting skin cancer. I'm not attacking you, Jessica, I'm simply giving my opinion.
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Kirstina Michl on 15 Jan 13There's nothing wrong with being tan or pale. It indicates nothing other than how much time it appears you spend in the sun. And yes, this will cause businesses to lose money, but as for the girls who want to be tan year-round, there are other options that would probably actually be healthier, such as tanning lotions, bronzer, actually going out in the sun, etc. Or maybe they should work to make tanning beds safer so that the risk of skin cancer decreases. Maybe the tanning salons could work to sell tanning lotions and bronzers and spray tans so that they don't loose as much money.
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jessicavaldez on 16 Jan 13okay i gave my opinion too Natalie and if your fine with it then okay i just said i wouldn't like it and a lot of girls don't either that's why they tan i was being sarcastic in my comment