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U.S. indoor tanning tax having mixed effects

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although a 2010 federal excise tax was meant to deter customers from using indoor tanning salons, only a minority of the businesses taking part in a new survey reported a drop in clients and most said their customers did not seem to care. The 10 percent tax on indoor tanning services, modeled after taxes on tobacco products and justified by evidence that tanning can ...

Study: Indoor Tanning Linked With Early Onset of Skin Cancer

Given that indoor tanning beds were officially classified as a human carcinogen in 2009 -- up there with cigarettes and asbestos -- it should be fairly obvious that frequent tanning-booth exposure would increase your risk of skin cancer.

Indoor tanning just not healthy

Being tanned wasn’t always associated with being beautiful.

Murder victim's jewelry, diary stolen from daughter

The personal effects of Diane Grégoire were stolen Tuesday after someone broke into her daugther's east end Montreal apartment.

New Study Reveals Sun’s Potential Harmful Effects On Kids

A new study shows many children and adolescents are not protecting themselves from the sun's harmful rays and they could pay the price later in life.