This makes me mad.
ParentDish tells us about a 10-year-old Welsh girl named Kelly Thompson. Kelly spent 16 minutes in a tanning bed and suffered burns over 70% of her body. If she had stayed in the bed for two more minutes, she would have needed skin grafts, according to the Daily Mail. The girl has been told to stay out of the "direct sunlight" for 10 years because her skin is now much more susceptible to skin cancer.
10 years! It's like she became a vampire.
The tanning salon is unmanned, and the tanning beds are coin-operated. Also from the Daily Mail is this quote: Julie Barratt, of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health,
said: "Allowing this industry to self-regulate is not working. Unmanned
suntanning salons are a particular problem as they are subject to no
controls at all. The only way we can protect young people from
this sort of self-inflicted damage is to control the use of sun-tanning
facilities by legislation."
Well, maybe. There's something else that will help. Telling kids that tanning is a really bad idea. I know, that won't always work. But that photo is of Kelly and her mother, Sharon Hannaford, who is demanding a ban on unattended tanning. Not to be catty, but where do you think Kelly got the idea that tanning was something she should be doing?
Source: DailyMail via ParentDish
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