Monday 15 October 2012

Indoor tanning still common in Germany

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Four in ten Germans ages 14 to 45 say they have tried indoor tanning and one in seven are current users, according to a survey out today. Germany enacted legislation banning minors from tanning salons in 2009. Yet five percent of 14- to 17-year-olds in the survey, which was done in 2011 and 2012, said they had used indoor tanning in the past year. "It's unfortunately not surprising, because it is still a very common practice," said Dr. Sophie J. Balk, an attending pediatrician at Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York, who was not involved in the work. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

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