For many young people, the risk of wrinkling is a bigger tanning deterrent than the risk of skin cancer. How's that for some misplaced worry?Now if the wrinkle-worry gets these youngsters to stop tanning, then I'm happy. Still, it amazes me that warnings about skin cancer still are not taken seriously.
"We don't know for sure, but there's some suggestive evidence that young people are more influenced by thinking about themselves getting old faster, than thinking about themselves getting a skin cancer," says one doctor.
Experts say that perhaps young people see themselves as invincible and don't believe they can really get skin cancer.
One young girl, who worried she was starting to look older after regular tanning bed use, says: "Even though skin cancer does run in my family, it was the crow's feet that scared me."
1. Makes total sense, since it's vanity that drives most people to tan themselves in the first place.
Regards,
Richard Day Gore
Posted at 12:13PM on Jun 12th 2007 by richard day gore