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Republicans in Maine have forestalled an attempt to ban persons under 18 from tanning salons because parental freedom.
Under that reasoning, I should have been free to give my kids plastic bags and tell them to go play in the street.
David Farmer also disapproves. A nugget:
In fact, nearly 80 percent of salons said that indoor tanning is beneficial to health, and some said it would prevent cancer.
At least one salon said: “It’s got to be safe, or else they wouldn’t let us do it.”
We shouldn’t let them do it.
The science is shocking.
A study released last fall by the University of California-San Francisco estimated that indoor tanning is responsible for more than 170,000 new cases of skin cancer a year just in the United States.
