It's Here: A Tax on Tanning
According to CNN, a part of the health care bill includes a 10% tax on indoor tanning customers.
As an editor who has long been hearing and reading about the connection between skin cancer and indoor tanning from the AAD, dermatologists, and studies, this makes sense to me, in line with a tax on cigarettes.
Per the article, according to the American Academy of Dermatology, "...indoor tanning before the age of 35 is linked to a 75% increase in the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, which has also become more common in young females. Meanwhile, nearly 30 million Americans hit the tanning beds each year and about 2.3 million of these people are teenagers."
What do you think? Is this fair?
~Olessa
Deputy Editor, Health & Beauty
As an editor who has long been hearing and reading about the connection between skin cancer and indoor tanning from the AAD, dermatologists, and studies, this makes sense to me, in line with a tax on cigarettes.
Per the article, according to the American Academy of Dermatology, "...indoor tanning before the age of 35 is linked to a 75% increase in the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, which has also become more common in young females. Meanwhile, nearly 30 million Americans hit the tanning beds each year and about 2.3 million of these people are teenagers."
What do you think? Is this fair?
~Olessa
Deputy Editor, Health & Beauty
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Comment by Caitlin Losey on March 26, 2010 at 10:55am -
No one tell the cast of the Jersey Shore that I said this, but I absolutely think it's fair, haha!
Seriously, though I do. In the same way I think taxes on cigarettes are fair. There's no debating it, these habits damage your health and can kill. Whether you do it once or everyday, it's always harmful (no matter what Snooki says).
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