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| Are Tanning Beds Safe? |  Although you may understand the facts about tanning, there’s a good chance that your friends and family or customers don’t. Probably, you’ve heard a lot of disturbing comments from them about tanning.
Study common misunderstandings about Tanning that have led a lot of people to ask the question - are tanning beds safe?
"Tanning is just as dangerous as smoking"
FALSE: Tanning is natural. This is your body’s natural defense against sunburn. Smoking is an unnatural process that your body rejects. In addition, indoor tanning is the most controlled environment possible to get a tan. Actually indoor tanning is beneficial as one is not exposed to the harmful effects of the sun.
"There's no such thing as a safe Tan."
The word "safe" means "zero risk." This could just as easily be said that it isn’t "safe" not to tan. There’s abundance of research that says totally avoiding the sun can increase your risk of many forms of cancer, including skin cancer.
"Tanning causes Skin Cancer"
Though studies have suggested that tanning causes skin cancer, this remains a very complicated issue. A good number of studies clearly define the biggest risk factors for skin cancer as repeated sunburn and heredity. Besides, there are many other studies suggesting that people who receive regular sun exposure are at lower risk for some forms of skin cancer. So, indoor tanning is safer in this respect.
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