The sun, a star that is the center of the Solar System. This star gives necessities we, the humans living on Earth need such as natural sunlight. Although natural sunlight benefits humans by giving them Vitamin D, this sunlight can also harm humans(1). Natural sunlight contains UV (ultraviolet) rays, an electromagnetic radiation invisible to the human eye. The UV rays that reaches the Earth’s surface consists of UVB rays and UVA rays. The UVA rays can penetrate the deeper layers of a human’s skin, creating groups of free atoms that can cause premature aging of the skin and other problems to the human body’s immune system. The UVB rays however, don’t penetrate deeply into the skin but they can damage a human’s DNA, causing sunburn and skin cancer(2). Compared to skin cancer and the premature aging of the skin caused by the UV ray, sunburn seems like a small problem but sunburn is the primary cause of humans getting skin cancer. If a person gets
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As one can see the benefits of the sunscreen affect people positively, but the benefits of the sunscreens won’t matter if it isn’t used at all (a social aspect). Many people in this world do not use sunscreen because of various reasons (some people forget to put the sunscreen on, some people doesn’t buy the sunscreen at all, etc), making them vulnerable to the UV ray. If people are vulnerable to the UV rays, the chance of them getting sunburns, skin cancer and other skin diseases will increase. For an example: in a survey taken in the United States of America 31%, of the adults (that took the survey) said that they didn’t use sunscreen(9). As one can see this shows there are people who do not use sunscreens thus proving the fact that as long as people don’t use sunscreens, the UV rays will continue to harm those people, making those people’s skins get sunburn and (or) skin
As one can see the benefits of the sunscreen affect people positively, but the benefits of the sunscreens won’t matter if it isn’t used at all (a social aspect). Many people in this world do not use sunscreen because of various reasons (some people forget to put the sunscreen on, some people doesn’t buy the sunscreen at all, etc), making them vulnerable to the UV ray. If people are vulnerable to the UV rays, the chance of them getting sunburns, skin cancer and other skin diseases will increase. For an example: in a survey taken in the United States of America 31%, of the adults (that took the survey) said that they didn’t use sunscreen(9). As one can see this shows there are people who do not use sunscreens thus proving the fact that as long as people don’t use sunscreens, the UV rays will continue to harm those people, making those people’s skins get sunburn and (or) skin