SUNBEDS

• Guest 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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  13 November 2009     09:1832975
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  BBC holding debate on use sunbeds again.
  are they a risk or not???????
  
  as usual you can get so called experts from both sides of this debate giving very diffrent views, but you do realyu want the real answer.
  
  Are they a risk or not
• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  13 November 2009     10:0632978
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  In my opinion they are a terrible thing especially the tanning salons that let young girls (sometimes as young as 11 or 12) use them. They become addictive to these girls and they end up tanning several times a week because they are conditioned to the fact that they only look good with a tan. They don't think that prolonged exposure to the UV rays increases the risk of developing malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer and also that it also causes premature aging. Nowadays if you want a tan you can do it safely with any number of fake tans on the market.
  
  Sunbeds - just say no!
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• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  13 November 2009     14:2432984
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  Not natural, but then these days, how much is, and how many people really care? Certainly the shop owner doesn`t.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  13 November 2009     18:2033004
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  i always think these tans look rather silly in the middle of winter in england.
  
  i suppose that if it gives someone a morale boost it must be worth it to them to pay out .
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  13 November 2009     19:2133015
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  it all so makes them rather vain and self centerd.
• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  13 November 2009     19:5433017
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  But sadly a lot of it is now what young girls have become conditioned to, looking like celebrities and suffering from low self esteem because they don't match the perfect (airbrushed to within an inch of their lives) models or singers etc. There is so much rubbish in magazines and on TV which only adds fuel to the fire, these images are not real, they are created and no one can look like that in real life. Young girls often don't think beyond getting their next top up on a sunbed to what they could potentially be doing to endanger their lives by contracting a skin cancer in years to come. This is one thing I get on my soap box about regularly working as young peoples Agony Aunt.
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• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  13 November 2009     20:0933019
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  I go along with all of that Jeane. Perhaps I`ll just replace the word `celebrities`, with cardboard cutouts.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.