I've used an indoor tanning booth. As a former user of tanning booths, I can say that I feel as though now I am one of "them". Who are they? The tanners. Their orange skin, their bleached, stiffened, and shining hair, I'm one of them. While at the moment, my skin is the color of a perfect bechamel and my hair the color of burnt coffee, I can say that I know what it's like to tan. That being said, I'm an ex-smoker. I've bought enough packs of cigarettes to tell you that it's an event you don't enjoy. Having a fresh pack is nice, especially if they're good cigarettes, but actually buying the little bastard isn't the best experience. Often, when you say "Parliament Fulls", you're met with the wrong pack and for the entire five minute drive you
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It's unlikely to kill you, and even if you're not tanning, you should still keep your eyes open for it. Also, on a larger, more national scale, melanoma from tanning booths is rare. Melanoma affects a lot of people. Anyone who works outdoors, or really gets out of the house a lot is likely to get a melanoma removed at some point in their lives. But you should know, it can still kill you. So how about this. Federally Mandated, or even State Mandated posters should be hung in tanning salons. On them, information about detecting melanoma, risk factors for melanoma, activities which increase the risk of melanoma, and local dermatologists who can treat melanoma should all be listed. A massive fine would have to back the mandate for the posters, and on the booths themselves, labels that outline the risks associated between tanning and melanoma should be placed. The label would read something like this: "WARNING: USING A TANNING BOOTH, EVEN WITH SUNSCREEN, INCREASES YOUR RISK OF DEVELOPING SKIN CANCER. ALSO, IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A TOOL. BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU GET OLD, YOU'LL BE VERY WRINKLY. AND NOT IN THE CUTE 'FAT BABY' OR 'ADORABLE BULLDOG' WAY. MORE LIKE THE CROWD WITH ACRYLIC NAILS IN THE ' ACTIVE LIVING' COMMUNITY." I think that should get the …show more content…
Our friends went on to be stationed in North Carolina as my husband headed off to serve overseas. Our friend died in a Huey helicopter accident on the base just months after we parted paths. He was in his twenties and his young wife had 30 days to evacuate quarters. I remember at the time that she was feeling completely displaced, leaving behind the only family that she knew at the time - her military family. Today I read in the news about the Widow's tax and according to the AP Newswire out of Washington, "In order to fully collect on insurance their husbands bought for them when alive, they must marry another man. And to qualify, the widows must remarry when they are 57 or older. Those who remarry earlier miss out, as do widows who never remarry." There are approximately 55,000 affected widows living in the United States who find this Widow's Tax to be the most convoluted and disturbing law our Congress has ever come up with and I tend to agree with them. A 74-yr-old, Freda Schroeppel Green, whose late husband served for 30 years in the Air Force before his death of a service-connected disability finally remarried last year. Her wedding present from the U.S. government arrived shortly thereafter in the form of a bill in the amount of $41,000 in insurance premiums that had to be refunded because she remarried. As members of Congress begin to
It's unlikely to kill you, and even if you're not tanning, you should still keep your eyes open for it. Also, on a larger, more national scale, melanoma from tanning booths is rare. Melanoma affects a lot of people. Anyone who works outdoors, or really gets out of the house a lot is likely to get a melanoma removed at some point in their lives. But you should know, it can still kill you. So how about this. Federally Mandated, or even State Mandated posters should be hung in tanning salons. On them, information about detecting melanoma, risk factors for melanoma, activities which increase the risk of melanoma, and local dermatologists who can treat melanoma should all be listed. A massive fine would have to back the mandate for the posters, and on the booths themselves, labels that outline the risks associated between tanning and melanoma should be placed. The label would read something like this: "WARNING: USING A TANNING BOOTH, EVEN WITH SUNSCREEN, INCREASES YOUR RISK OF DEVELOPING SKIN CANCER. ALSO, IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A TOOL. BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU GET OLD, YOU'LL BE VERY WRINKLY. AND NOT IN THE CUTE 'FAT BABY' OR 'ADORABLE BULLDOG' WAY. MORE LIKE THE CROWD WITH ACRYLIC NAILS IN THE ' ACTIVE LIVING' COMMUNITY." I think that should get the …show more content…
Our friends went on to be stationed in North Carolina as my husband headed off to serve overseas. Our friend died in a Huey helicopter accident on the base just months after we parted paths. He was in his twenties and his young wife had 30 days to evacuate quarters. I remember at the time that she was feeling completely displaced, leaving behind the only family that she knew at the time - her military family. Today I read in the news about the Widow's tax and according to the AP Newswire out of Washington, "In order to fully collect on insurance their husbands bought for them when alive, they must marry another man. And to qualify, the widows must remarry when they are 57 or older. Those who remarry earlier miss out, as do widows who never remarry." There are approximately 55,000 affected widows living in the United States who find this Widow's Tax to be the most convoluted and disturbing law our Congress has ever come up with and I tend to agree with them. A 74-yr-old, Freda Schroeppel Green, whose late husband served for 30 years in the Air Force before his death of a service-connected disability finally remarried last year. Her wedding present from the U.S. government arrived shortly thereafter in the form of a bill in the amount of $41,000 in insurance premiums that had to be refunded because she remarried. As members of Congress begin to