Exposure to ultraviolet radiations is good for you. At least
this is what some people from the country’s tanning salons are trying to demonstrate.
The new ad says “Go get a tan. Your body will thank you.”
“The dermatologists,
the sunscreen and cosmetic industries have tried to say that somehow moderate
tanning causes melanoma, which is just not true,” Sarah Longwell of the Indoor
Tanning Association told "Good Morning America" today. She said that studies that say ultraviolet radiation from the sun can
lead to skin cancer are a form of “junk science.”
“While our campaign will be controversial, it's time people
learned the truth about sun exposure,” Longwell said.
“Not only is moderate tanning completely safe, more and more it's becoming just
what the doctor ordered.”
On the one hand, the ad says tanning is helpful because the
sun or the exposure to ultraviolet light provides vitamin D for the body.
On the other hand, doctors say people can get the necessary
quantity of vitamin D from food, without being necessary to expose their bodies
under direct sunlight, or in tanning salons. They say skin cancer rates are
rising day by day. More than a million Americans develop skin cancer every year
in the United States.
Yale
Medical School’s
David Leffell qualified information brought by the ads as “misrepresenting
scientific fact.”
ABC news reports that a woman who suffered from cancer and
had an advanced stage melanoma two years ago said that the advertisements were
not “honest at all.” She said that doctors identified tanning salon habit as
the main thing that caused her disease.
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