Having tanned skin is considered a very popular fashion statement and has grown in popularity exponentially throughout the more recent years. Tanning is the process of the changing in color of the skin’s pigmentation as a result of being exposed to ultraviolet radiation (Driscoll and Darcy 59). Now, tanning salons have spread to the likings of minors who are damaging their skin at an early stage of their lives. This has become a problem that has sprung many controversial issues throughout society and is now a legal matter. Should minors be allowed to use the tanning beds at registered tanning salons? A federal ban on minors using tanning salons should be enacted because it will reduce the risk of different medical problems. Thousands of skin
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Cicalo continued to artificially tan until the age of twenty when she was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. After receiving a melanoma diagnosis, a patient goes through many periodical examinations. In Cicala’s case, she “gets a head-to-toe skin exam every three months, which usually result in removal of a suspicious growth” and she has had surgeries that “have left her with about twenty-five scars” (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services 6). Brittany Lietz Cicala is a living testimony of what can happen to someone so young when they abuse they’re right to use the harmful ultraviolet radiations of a tanning bed. Someone else who is having to live with the consequences of tanning while being underage is the twenty-two year old wife of one of John Rusche’s medical students. John Rusche is a House Minority leader of the state of Idaho and “is sponsoring a bill that would ban tanning for those under eighteen” (Loew …show more content…
Sarah L. Taylor and several of her colleagues conducted a pilot study to examine these effects on people with Fibromyalgia syndrome. Fibromyalgia syndrome is a chronic disorder distinguished by widespread musculoskeletal pain around the neck, torso, and extremities, referred to as “tender points” (Taylor et al. 15). Nonetheless, Fibromyalgia syndrome does not typically appear in people under the age of eighteen, and if it did this would be a very rare case. According to the USA Today article written by Tracy Loew, there is also another small health benefit from ultraviolet radiation, “the natural production of Vitamin D” (03a). However this small benefit does not and could not outweigh the potential damaging medical risks caused by tanning beds and their harmful ultraviolet
Cicalo continued to artificially tan until the age of twenty when she was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. After receiving a melanoma diagnosis, a patient goes through many periodical examinations. In Cicala’s case, she “gets a head-to-toe skin exam every three months, which usually result in removal of a suspicious growth” and she has had surgeries that “have left her with about twenty-five scars” (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services 6). Brittany Lietz Cicala is a living testimony of what can happen to someone so young when they abuse they’re right to use the harmful ultraviolet radiations of a tanning bed. Someone else who is having to live with the consequences of tanning while being underage is the twenty-two year old wife of one of John Rusche’s medical students. John Rusche is a House Minority leader of the state of Idaho and “is sponsoring a bill that would ban tanning for those under eighteen” (Loew …show more content…
Sarah L. Taylor and several of her colleagues conducted a pilot study to examine these effects on people with Fibromyalgia syndrome. Fibromyalgia syndrome is a chronic disorder distinguished by widespread musculoskeletal pain around the neck, torso, and extremities, referred to as “tender points” (Taylor et al. 15). Nonetheless, Fibromyalgia syndrome does not typically appear in people under the age of eighteen, and if it did this would be a very rare case. According to the USA Today article written by Tracy Loew, there is also another small health benefit from ultraviolet radiation, “the natural production of Vitamin D” (03a). However this small benefit does not and could not outweigh the potential damaging medical risks caused by tanning beds and their harmful ultraviolet