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"  No doubt inspired by the effortless, radiant natural beauty of Tan Mom and other charred-skin reality TV gremlins, teenage girls are continuing to use tanning beds despite the well-publicized risks. According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (via New York Daily News), 29.3% of non-Hispanic white girls in high school use a tanning bed more than once a year. Previous studies have noted that tanning before the age of 35 increases the risk of melanoma by 59% to 75% (!!), and using before the age of 25 increases skin cancer risk by 40% up to 102% (!!). Although it&amp;#039;s a known fact that tanning increases cancer risk dramatically, it is a $5 billion industry, so there&amp;#039;s a strong incentive to keep it up. It seems, though, that there&amp;#039;s a fairly simple solution to this problem: Stop tanning. You don&amp;#039;t want to look old and leathery. You don&amp;#039;t want cancer. Stop tanning.  Solved it! Photo via Photographer&amp;#039;s Choice Follow Sam on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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