Proposed law would shut minors out of tanning beds
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SALEM, Ore. – Due to the health risks, especially from cancer, some Oregon lawmakers want to ban anyone under 18 years old from using commercial tanning beds, tanning booths, or sun lamps.
Under a proposal known as House Bill 2896, the only way someone under 18 could use a tanning bed would be if they had a doctor's note. The bill was introduced on Monday.
Oregon has the fourth highest rate of death from skin cancer in the United States, according to Dr. Brian Druker at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Indoor tanning increases the risk by 20 percent, Druker said in an online post that cites an 2012 study.
Katie Williams said she started using a tanning bed at age 16 while in high school. Seven years later, she had developed skin cancer.
“Luckily, I caught the melanoma in time,” Williams said. “It could have killed me when I was 23.
Druker also posted that another study found that using a tanning device before age 35 increases the risk of skin cancer by 75 percent.
Druker is the director of the Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU.
One of the hottest seniors in our high school fell asleep under an old-fashioned tanning light and it blistered her eyes shut. Mmmm...sexy.
So, teens girls don't have the capcity to  assess the risks of  tanning....
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liberalism truly is a mental disorder
Good thing John Boehner is from Ohio, not Oregon. Oh wait, he's over 18 anyways, so fake bake away, John, fake bake your heat's contents away...
what the hell doe J.B have to do with this.???
The ingredients in most sun screens & tanning lotions alone can cause cancer. The FDA doesn't care because the cancer industry is nothing but a money making machine. Just another reason I refuse to support Kommen and the BS "race for the cure", yeah funny how there is a ton on money in the race, no real money in the actual cure. How is big pharma supposed to make billions if they put out a cure? Not exactly a money making business model.
 @axpman Riiiiiggggghhhhhhht.
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The pharmaceutical company that comes out with a cure for cancer will make so damn much money they'll be able to swim in it.
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Curing it doesn't stop people from getting cancer, unless you're talking about a cancer vaccine, and that's not what most consider to be a front runner for a cancer cure.
 @Festivus  @axpman A leading Oregon chiropractor told me that if you put a simple anti-inflammatory in DMSO and apply it a spinal injury within half an hour after an accident, it can prevent the nerve tissue from swelling and being squeezed off or irreparably damaged by broken or dislocated bone.
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He told me that paramedics could apply this when they arrived and at least TRY to save people who are fine at the accident but who become paralyzed as the tissue swells.
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Then he told me that the medical industry makes a hell of a lot more money off of disabled people than people who make full recovery.
 @Playanekes  @axpman That's a swell story, and does absolutely nothing to elevate my opinion of a branch of "medicine" predicated on voodoo.  Â
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I know enough doctors personally to know that most of them get into it to help people, not get rich. Â If this is true, your chiropractor friend will have no trouble finding someone willing to fund controlled studies to prove it. Â
 @Festivus If you cured everyone on the planet of cancer how are you going to continue making money? Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
 @axpman Depends on what you mean by cure.  If you vaccinate everyone against cancer and cancer goes away like smallpox, you don't make any more money.  If instead you come up with a way to cure an individual of their existing cancer, which is the much more likely scenario, then you make so much money you can't spend it fast enough.
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And smokers who started while minors get lung cancel outlaw cigs
Vanity wannabes...Thanks to the celebrities.Â
You can't fix stupid, but just maybe you can delay its onset.
I don't fake and bake and never will, but is this really enough of a public problem that legislation is necessary?Â
Just another step in the government's complete take-over of your children. Next there will be laws restricting what you can feed them or what types of clothes you can buy them... Soon, they will just be taken at birth, to be raised by the state because parents won't raise their children the way the government wants them to...
somebodys got to do it,Cmon you know this cant be a good thing,geez.
 @Owt_Raged Wahhhhh.. the guv'mint is taking away my kids tanning beds. Wahhhhhhhh. Durn nanny state, they won't be satisfied until the have drones flying around Clackamas County, taking pictures of me in my bedroom.... Wahhhhhhhh....
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Time to loosen up that hat a little.
 @Harry Tuttle Just in case no one has told you lately, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
 @Harry Tuttle  @Owt_Raged Tell it to medical marijuana smokers.
Yet another stupid nanny law. I suppose they'll try to outlaw spray tanning next.
 @JLO If it causes cancer, they probably will make sure that kids are not exposed to it either. If an Adult want's to do it, no one is stopping you from Fake Baking or Spray Tanning. But don't complain when you get Cancer. You where warned, Caveat emptor.
Guys don't like girls who use tanning beds that much, they look like horses and look like oompa loompa's. In other words, people who use it turn orange and not brown.
What a stupid law...
"Proposed law would shut minors out of tanning beds"
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Great. Minors will be banned. What about loggers? WIll they be next? Or delivery truck drivers? It will never end. Government is so into controlling everything.
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Wait a minute. Oh, it is minors and not miners.....ok, never mind.
 @RalphCramden Thanks for the laugh Ralph
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I am in a comical mood lately. With all the insane stuff going on I just have to make jokes of everything.
Tannng beds are so 90's.And it doesn't do people any favors hen they get older either.