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"The Jersey Shore&amp;apos;s Snooki is in trouble again.A member of the Parents Television Council advisory board slammed Nicole &amp;#x201C;Snooki Polizzi,&amp;#x201D; 21, after she announced Monday on The Jay Leno Show that she&amp;apos;d like to change the world by installing cancer-causing tanning beds &amp;quot;in everybody&amp;apos;s homes.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMarybeth Hicks, who also wrote a parenting book called &amp;quot;Bringing Up Geeks,&amp;quot; tells Usmagazine.com, &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s disconcerting that [she] could have any sort of influence or be a role model... or advocate something like tanning beds that could cause cancer.&amp;quot;Continues Hicks, &amp;quot;The show is glorifying behaviors and the cultural position that is silly and sometimes dangerous... in the same way that a lot of MTV&amp;apos;s programming glorifies the hookup culture, the drinking -- the general ignorance that they think is fun and glamorous that people watch like a train wreck! You can&amp;apos;t turn away.&amp;quot;\r\nCheck out 13 pics of stars without makeupHicks says Snooki could influence tweens to try to hit tanning beds.&amp;quot;The notion that these people are celebrities at all give them credibility they should not have,&amp;quot; she fumes. &amp;quot;All of the sudden, they do have the power to influence behavior and fads and trends.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHicks says &amp;quot;parents need to know&amp;quot; that the show is promoting unsafe behavior.&amp;quot;This [show] is a great example of sheer exploitation for the purpose of chasing ratings,&amp;quot; the expert says, adding that the characters have &amp;quot;become so caricatured, they&amp;apos;re almost like cartoons.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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