A new study has linked more cases of cancer to indoor tanning exposure than smoking.
According
to an analysis of past research, more than a third of adults in Western
countries have been exposed to indoor tanning at some point.
Based
on those exposures, the study authors calculate the number of skin
cancers that can be blamed on indoor tanning each year exceeds the
number of lung cancers attributed to smoking for the countries studied,
Fox News reported.
Study's senior author and a dermatologist at the University of California,
San Francisco Dr. Eleni Linos said that they already knew that indoor
tanning is linked to skin cancer, but they wanted to find out how common
was its exposure in the United States and internationally.
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The
World Health Organization (WHO), the American Medical Association and
the American Academy of Dermatology have come out against indoor tanning
in recent years.
In 2009, WHO labeled tanning devices as
high-level carcinogens, which puts tanning on par with tobacco use as a
public health threat.
In 2007, a working group affiliated with WHO
found that people who used tanning beds before their 30th birthday were
75 percent more likely to develop melanoma - the deadliest form of skin
cancer.
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