The government’s Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) wants to forbid sun bed use by adolescents under the age of 18. They want this because there are around 370 cases of melanoma in the UK each year, and approximately a hundred deaths each year can be linked directly to sun bed use. The Committee wants to forbid it to prevent more young people from using these beds because the number of under-18s who used sun beds, increased in the last year. Apparently youngsters want to look good, but do not realize what effect this can have on their health.
I think it is a very good idea to forbid young people from using sun beds. Not only under-18s, but many people are not aware of the effects of sunlight when you expose your skin to this light for a longer period of time, or, if you use a sun bed. In fact if it was up to me I would forbid everyone to use a sun bed because it damages your body. I think people do not worry about it because the damage to your skin is not immediately visible and they only see the good result as in a beautiful tan. It is a great initiative of the COMARE to make people aware of the effects of sun beds.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jun/19/ban-sunbeds-under-18s
I think that it is a very good idea to forbid young people from using sun beds, as a matter of fact I totally agree with you when it comes to forbid sunbeds in general! As a person I don't understand why people take the risk of getting skin cancer just to have a tan. The tan these people develop often looks different than a tan you get from the real sun mostly because they spend way to much time on a sun bed and are obsessed with their tan. We should protect these people against themselves and forbid sun beds!
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