BC Government announces tanning bed ban for teens
VICTORIA (NEWS1130) If you under 18, you are going to have to leave BC if you want to get bronzed in a tanning bed. The province says it will ban minors from tanning indoors by the fall except with a doctor note. Health Minister Mike de Jong says they want to stop more people from getting preventable skin cancer,coach factory outlet, especially melanoma. The ban comes after a review by from an Indoor Tanning Working Group,uggs, including doctors,rolex replica, politicians and the tanning industry. The province has studies showing indoor tanning before the age of 35 raises the risk of melanoma,gucci, a deadly form of skin cancer,katespade, by 75 per cent. Speaking at a news conference at the BC Cancer Agency, de Jong says he understands the tanning industry opposes the ban but it meant to avoid future health problems and costs, industry,coach outlet store online, for example, [is] very much alive to the fact you should have qualified people operating indoor tanning equipment for anyone that using it. According to de Jong,montre femme, they hope to have the ban in place by the fall. Youth under 18 may still use a tanning bed if they get a doctor prescription. Dermatologist Dr. David McLean says ultraviolet light can be used to treat conditions like psoriasis,louboutin, but he thrilled with the teen tanning ban. have seen twelve year olds,true religion factory outlet, thirteen year olds, very often girls, going to a tanning salon because their peers are also going and they want to look the same, McLean says. think it very important to level the playing field across the province. Cancer survivor Kathy Barnard says she was an obsessive tanner in her teens and endured numerous surgeries afterward. proud of the skin you in,cheap oakleys, she stresses. it, protect it, save it. I know now that I would rather be alive with the skin I was given than die in the skin I so desperately wanted to have. Steven Gilroy with the Joint Canadian Tanning Association says their group is disappointed with the ban, saying it too heavy handed and takes away parents rights to decide what their kids can do. He adds people under 18 aren a lot of their business either. only come in,vans pas cher, though, for vacations, prom seasons, that type of thing. Our average client is 30, he admits. He says he thinks the working group on tanning was stacked against them. we think if [de Jong] goes through with the rest of the recommendations,north face jackets, we hope that that will bring the professionalism up in our industry we want to get rid of is unmanned tanning and making sure that we have control through certified and trained operators operating that equipment, explains Gilroy. Canadian Cancer Society volunteer Alicia Perry has been helping with the tan free grad campaign to try to stop grade 12 students from darkening up before graduation,air max 90, message is to own your own skin tone and be proud of the skin that you in,mcm backpack, so that the message that we setting forward. warning is getting through] yes, but unfortunately education alone is not enough,air max 95, admits Perry.

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