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by **Jeffro** » Fri May 21, 2004 2:42 pm

This is so asinine... :wall:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=32&u=/ap/20040521/ap_on_re_us/tanning_booths

Calif. to Ban Teens From Tanning Booths

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A state famous for tanned bodies and year-round sunshine would be the nation's first to ban teenagers from artificial tanning booths if a bill passed Thursday by the state Assembly becomes law.

Lawmakers, citing a rise in skin cancer cases in California and across the nation, voted 42-26 to add artificial tanning to teenage no no's that already include smoking, drinking and buying lottery tickets.

Teens often visit tanning salons before proms, vacations and weddings, say owners of an industry that claims 160,000 employees nationally and $5 billion in annual revenue. California is estimated to have 1,500 tanning salons.

Backers of the bill, including the California Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, blame tanning salons for part of 1 million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed every year in the United States. The group cited 7,400 deaths annually from melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

"There is a big difference between going to the beach and a tanning salon," said the bill's author, Assemblyman Joe Nation, a Democrat. "When kids go to the beach they put on sun screen."

The bill passed despite opposition from tanning salons and Republican lawmakers opposed to "meddling" in personal choices.

"If this bill passes it proves there's no part of somebody's life this Legislature won't stick its nose into," said GOP Assemblyman Ray Haynes.

Heidi Blank, manager of San Diego's Hollywood Tans, said she thought the bill could "hurt my business somewhat. But what are you going to do? There's people bigger than me making those decisions."

She said teenagers account for about 5 percent of her store's clients.

The bill, which now goes to the Senate for consideration, requires teenagers to have a doctor or surgeon's prescription before being allowed to tan indoors.

Along with 26 other states, California already requires permission from parents or a legal guardian for teens 15-18 to use artificial tanning salons. Children 14 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

by **Agent-Commando** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:06 pm

Sorry Jeffro, looks that golden tan you had your mind set on is burning away.

by **Rocky Dennis** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:09 pm

There's always Fake Bake for that Oompaloompa look

by **Jeffro** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:14 pm

Originally posted by Agent-Commando
Sorry Jeffro, looks that golden tan you had your mind set on is burning away.

I'm 18 you :tard:

!

Anyway...I won't be getting a tan anytime soon. I like how people comment on my bright, pale glow.

Plus, I don't tan I burn...very badly mind you.

And rocky dennis...I know a couple fake bakes at school and they look SO orange!

by **Colonel Ingus** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:40 pm

I'm 18 you !

Uh eighTEEN? Smacker. Ask Harry, Hightimber or some of the other old farts. Yer still a TEENager to us!:D

by **deathBOB** » Fri May 21, 2004 3:48 pm

me 2... My moms side of the family is all pale... I take after her father with my pale skin and extremely large feet...

by **SavageParrot** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:49 pm

And yet as far as I understand it in the same state plastic surgery for children as low as thirteen is relatively common, go figure.

by **Nymh78** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:01 pm

I fake and bake once a week, and no i do not lok like a leather hand bag. If buli ever posts the wedding pics you can see i look like i have a light tan, like when i actually went outside

by **yaSon** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:06 pm

Originally posted by Rocky Dennis
There's always Fake Bake for that Oompaloompa look

i never look forward to tanning beds anyway and never really even think of going to a salon to take someone. I think its pretty stoopid to just for looks. But if your one of those people that look like michael jackson and your friends call u white boy then i can see why.

by **Bagginses** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:20 pm

You can do this at home, it's called a microwave.

-Bagginses

by **Rule of Wrist** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:34 pm

There's an easy solution to this... just wait. You will be old enough eventually, unless you piss off your parents

by **Jeffro** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:57 pm

Originally posted by Rule of Wrist
There's an easy solution to this... just wait. You will be old enough eventually, unless you piss off your parents

What I am saying is, one less teen getting a tan, is one more teen turning to drugs...(maybe).

I wanted to drag this thread up for the hell of it.

Sorry for pulling a dakana.

by **SkiloDog2000** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:38 pm

danmit people u want a tan sit in your backyard naked
13 year old breast implants=illegal,,,Right?!?!?!
hope so, that could turn out to be wierd

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