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"  When I was younger, getting a tan was pretty much my only goal for the summer. That is, until I realized that routine sun exposure would make me look like an old leather handbag someday if I wasn&amp;#039;t careful\u2014not to mention that it could lead to deadly cancer. It&amp;#039;s a good thing I traded my baby oil for sunscreen sooner rather than later: According to a company spokesperson for Superdrug, which just released the results of a poll on sun exposure, the average person gets 80 percent of his or her lifetime skin-to-sun contact before hitting age 18.  Of course, this means that slathering on the sunblock is super-important when you&amp;#039;re young. Only, scarily enough, the Superdrug poll found that 50 percent of children age six to eight are jonesing for a tan this summer and one in five say they won&amp;#039;t wear suncreen. Um...where are their parents? We just hope this doesn&amp;#039;t lead to a creation of a Tan Kid. Tan Mom is quite enough for us.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: thinkstockphoto  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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