Tanning Beds

AAD Survey Finds Young Women Disregard Warnings Linking Tanning To Melanoma Risk.

The Los Angeles Times (5/2, Kaplan) "Booster Shots" blog reported, "When it comes to tanning and health, young women still aren't getting the message," according to a new survey from the American Academy of Dermatology. The Department of Health and Human Services and the World Health Organization have "declared UV a known carcinogen"; and according to the AAD, people who engage in indoor tanning "increase their risk of developing melanoma by 75%." Yet the AAD poll found that "32% of the young women" surveyed had "put themselves in a tanning bed within the past year, with 25% of those tanners saying they had done so on a weekly basis."

        According to Fox News (5/2) the survey, which involved "more than 3,800 white non-Hispanic females ages 14 to 22," also found that 81 percent of the women "said they had tanned outdoors either frequently or occasionally in the past year." WebMD (5/2, Hendrick) noted that the tanning appeal increased with age. The survey showed that "18- to 22-year-olds were almost twice as likely to have used indoor tanning than 14- to 17-year-old girls."

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