Wrinkles scary enough to turn bronzed babes pale as ghosts

[Stuart G]

Wrinkles scary enough to turn bronzed babes pale as ghosts
Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:00PM

MSNBC..


By Diane Mapes

You'd think that surgery, scars, chemotherapy or even death might be enough to scare young women away from those ever-popular tanning booths, but new research says not so much.

Cancer's a bummer, for sure. But wrinkles? Those puppies are truly terrifying.

"They're not worried about skin cancer, but they are worried about getting wrinkled and being unattractive," says Dr. June Robinson, a dermatology professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and senior author of a new paper published today in Archives of Dermatology.

According to the National Center Institute, melanoma rates among 15 to 39-year old Caucasian women rose 50 percent between 1980 and 2004, enough to prompt the WHO to bump indoor tanning beds to its highest cancer risk category -- up there with arsenic and mustard gas.

They produced a 25-page book that focused on the effects tanning had on appearance -- explaining that tanning and its ultraviolet rays destroyed collagen in the skin -- and distributed it to a group of 435 diehard tanners ages 18 to 22.

This time, the message clicked.

Robinson says no matter why the young women tanned (some did it because they hated pale skin, other were self-treating their seasonal affective disorder), the fact that it would turn them into walking alligator bags resulted in a 35 percent drop in indoor tanning visits.





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[customerserviceguy]

1. Doesn't the tax on these melanoma modules kick in soon?

Or was it repealed in the reconciliation bill, and I somehow missed it?

[era veteran]

2. I have red hair, born in Panama, raised in Georgia, swim team/lifeguard, Army,

construction work, and like being outside= 5 skin cancers. The sun & tanning booths are addictive. Use sun block and stay out of those tanning things.

[BonnieJW]

4. I am fair and have solar dermatitis.

Grew up in Tucson, but I had to stop going in the sun in my early 20's. I am 60 now and I still get those pesky pre-cancer spots on my face that need to be burned off. The sun without screen or block is not your friend.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Tell female smokers that they will develop wrinkly, corrugated upper lips

That's also a good deterrent.