Max-Anne Fuhlbrugge
Professor Rochman
Effective Communications
15 March 2007
Tanning:
A tanning bed or sun bed is a device releasing ultraviolet radiation resulting in a cosmetic tan. Excessive tanning can lead to severe complications involving skin cancer and other skin problems, as well as eye deficiencies, even mental troubles such as addiction. The dangerous risks that a tanner exposes his or her self to are not worth the brief bronzing results they are acquiring.
Skin cancer is one of the most advertised consequences of excessive tanning. Ultra violet radiations from sunbeds cause cancer by altering DNA structure. Sunburned or tanned skin is ruined skin. According to the Department of Health for New York State, "Most of a person's lifetime skin damage, which increases the risk for skin cancer, occurs before the age of 18." UV rays damage the skin's epidermal cells, generating enzymes that race to refurbish damage. These enzymes cannot repair the DNA successfully all the......
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