Tanning bed???

Who all lays in a tanning bed?

How long does it take to get dark???

[smarty]

it takes a little while. the best thing to do is not to get so burnt your first time, just slowly build up to the full 20 minutes. Lay every other day for a week, laying a little more each time and you should be good to go. It all just depends on how easily you tan also.

[imported_elp6n]

Don't make me go into my anti-cancer-bed lecture now!

ok - too late.

Stay out of tanning beds. The use of tanning beds is very harmful, and greatly increases your risk for skin cancer. Melanoma is a deadly form of cancer if not caught very early.

Do not allow tanning bed establishment employees tell you otherwise. Tanning beds are not safe, and they are definitely not safer than the sun. In fact, you get more direct UV rays from a tanning bed than from the same time of sun exposure (which is why they work so fast).

If that's not enough lemme play on your vanity. Your skin will age, become leathery and wrinkly while you're still young, due to UV exposure.

One of the biggest risk factors for melanoma is chronic exposure to ultraviolet rays, primarily through tanning under the sun or in a tanning bed. The tanning properties of sun beds come from their ultraviolet B (UVB) and ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation, both of which are found in the sun´s rays. So it makes perfect sense that tanning beds, like the sun, would up skin cancer risk. Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer because it spreads easily to other organs and bones through the blood or the lymph system.


Along with melanoma, the use of tanning devices may also contribute to the incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dartmouth researchers report that people who used a tanning device were 2.5-times more likely to develop basal cell carcinoma, and 1.5-times more susceptible to squamous cell carcinoma. The tanning-bed users had risks higher than those who had previous sun exposure, but had not been under artificial lamps.

Although the results were not statistically significant, the researchers also found that, among artificial tanners, those who started at an early age are even more likely to develop skin cancer.

It's more than just cancer. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reports an estimated 700 emergency department visits per year related to tanning salon exposure. And tanning bed use is known to more rapidly age the skin.

[waveplayer]

they talk about smoking killing you why do they not tell you much about the tanning bed i mean some of the results are obvious