TANNING BEDS CAUSE CANCER!

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For all you fair skinned women who want to be dark…listen up!

The Associated Press is reporting that cancer experts have reassessed the danger of tanning beds and they are likening the cancer risk from tanning beds to arsenic.

Tanning beds now join tobacco, hepatitis B, and chimney sweeping on the list of KNOWN CAUSES of cancer.

A new analysis of about 20 studies makes clear that the risk of skin cancer jumps a whopping 75% when people start using tanning beds before age 30.

And, while scientists had previously thought that only one type of ultraviolet radiation was lethal, not so, as it turns out: in studies, all types of ultraviolet radiation caused scary mutations in mice, confirming that all ultraviolet radiation are carcinogens. UV radiation is used in tanning beds and is now known to cause skin and eye cancer.

What’s more, as use of tanning beds has increased over the years in people under 30, and a recent study in Britain shows that melanoma (the deadliest skin cancer of all), which historically is most prevalent in people over 75,  is now the leading cancer diagnosed in women in their 20s.