Just saw on msn.com: a STUDY just concluded that the use of tanning beds greatly increases the chance of contracting cancer of skin and eyes. Here's my thinking on that ... well DUH! With respect to those who've been harmed by these things, why do we need a study to prove that? Let's see ... we know excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer. Hmmmm. Maybe blasting light into your skin and cooking it browner with a high intensity light from a few inches away could do that too? Gads ... who'd have thought?
I understand we need such a study in order for government to regulate our use of something that's obviously bad for us (and we should therefore know better!) but it seems to me that common sense would convince us that's true so that there'd be no demand for the beds and companies making them would just go out of business.
Guess what's next? Lawsuits of course! Lots and lots of lawsuits suing tanning salons and tanning bed manufacturers to hold them accountable after we've CHOOSEN to do something that's obviously, by any reasonable amount of common sense beforehand, not good for us. C'mon folks! Let's use more common sense to motivate us to stop doing things that are bad for us ... or do them in moderation. An added benefit of doing that would be lower medical and insurance costs. Oh, but that will create a problem too. We'll live longer which means we'll need social security and medicare longer. Hmmmm.
Common sense tells us that this 'new' information will lead to: 1. government will 'regulate' this by requiring big labels with dire warnings (like those on smokes); 2. all companies making tanning beds will put even bigger signs of their own on their beds telling us that we're using their product at our own risk (to help them avoid being sued); 3. tanning salons will display even bigger signs telling us that we're using their service at our own risk; and 4. people will go right on using them anyway ... and getting cancer anyway.
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