Taking a page from the tobacco industry?s playbook, a group representing tanning salons is attacking doctors and researchers who claim that tanning beds cause cancer, FairWarning reported Aug. 23.
Training videos distributed to salons by the International Smart Tan Network and other materials refer to the ?sun scare? movement and try to equate tanning beds to natural sunlight, instructing employees to tout the health benefits of Vitamin D, produced by the body when the skin is exposed to the sun. An undercover investigation revealed that tanning shop employees routinely tell customers that indoor tanning poses no health risks.
The Indoor Tanning Association, the industry?s biggest advocacy group, launched a campaign to try to dispel the link between indoor tanning and skin cancer; the campaign was headed by Richard Berman, who formerly fought against drunk-driving laws as head of the American Beverage Institute. Ironically, industry officials compare their critics themselves to Big Tobacco.??The Sun Scare people are just like Big Tobacco, lying for money and killing people,? says Joseph Levy, executive director of Smart Tan.
In 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that?UV-emitting tanning devices are carcinogenic, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Dermatology urge minors warn to use tanning beds. There is broad scientific consensus that tanning beds raise the risk of developing melanoma, a particularly deadly form of skin cancer.
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Source: http://wellbeingwire.meyouhealth.com/physical-health/tanning-industry-battles-skin-cancer-charges/
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