How Safe are Tanning Beds?
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2015
- Around one million people use tanning beds each year in the US. Yet the ultraviolet (UV) light they use causes skin cancer. The risk is so high that a recent article from researchers at the University of Michigan called for an immediate ban on the use of commercial indoor tanning by minors, and the phasing out of all commercial tanning operations in the United States over the next 5 years.
Acknowledgements: This Risk Bites video is based on work by Diana Bowman, Ryan Lewis, Maximilian Lee and Catherine Yao (see first article below in Further Information)
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FURTHER INFORMATION:
The Growing Public Health Challenges of Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation From Use of Indoor Tanning Devices in the United States. Diana M. Bowman, Ryan C. Lewis, Maximilian S. Lee, andCatherine J. Yao (2015). NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. dx.doi.org/10.1177/10482911155...
The US Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer: www.surgeongeneral.gov/library...
The American Academy of Dermatology: Dangers of Indoor Tanning. www.aad.org/media-resources/s...
IARC: The association of use of sunbeds with cutaneous malignant melanoma and other skin cancers: A systematic review. (2006). International Journal of Cancer vol. 120 issue 5 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijc.22453
IARC: 2009 classification of tanning beds as a group 1 carcinogen (The Lancet): dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(...
US Food and Drug Administration: Indoor Tanning: The Risks of Ultraviolet Rays. www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/Consu...
Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) - Skin Cancer Foundation www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer...
Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) - Skin Cancer Foundation www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer...
Melanoma - Skin Cancer Foundation www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer...
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Its ok to use it responsibly, in the Winter, to boost well being.15 mins a week.
My family owned a tanning salon for 10 years. Tanning beds are safe if used correctly. You need to always use some sort of sunscreen or tanning lotion. When first starting out, we started people in the 3-5 min range. then worked up to 10, maybe 15 mins depending on skin tone. Never lay in there for 30 - 40 mins you will burn to a crisp and that is very bad for you. we had so many happy people with nice tans and not one of them mentioned anything of cancer. It's all about moderation.
Thank you for this I just joined a gym a month ago and they have free tanning rooms and I have always wanted to get a nice tan but was scared of getting cancer but from your message you have given me the info and confidence to finally start slowly tanning over the next couple months and I can't wait to see how good my body looks with a proper tan!
I really wanted to try tanning because people say it will help with body acne.
Tanning increases the risk of skin cancer like smoking increases the risk of lung cancer. Obviously far less people have lung cancer than people are smoking. And it should be the same logic with tanning beds. Not using tanning beds doesnt 100% prevent skin cancer either. But it is expected that skin cancer is more common among people who use them but this is kinda hard to really find out without locking in 2 groups of at least 100 humans each in for their entire life to test some stuff, which wouldnt be a very nice way of doing that.
@@kj908studioyeah just go 3-5 minutes depending on skin tone and if the booth is stand up they are usually stronger. I was ignorant and went 9 minutes in a stand up booth and I felt fine just after. 2 hours later I was red as a lobster. 5 minutes in a lay down booth is about an hour worth of UV rays in the sun
@SEliteGuitarist thanks I finally have a decent tan I stopped using the tan beds once it was no longer cold outside I also am doing calisthenics outside now instead of gym workouts so it's perfect!
Educate and dont ban. In America people have the freedom to make their own choices. If its not bothering anyone else, who cares. Same with smoking and drinking
Because cancer causing devices being used willingly puts a major strain on resources and destroys lives unnecessarily, are you serious?
It would be more interesting to know how much more dangerous these are compared to sun bathing or just long exposure to the sunlight since tanning beds are basically just sunlight simulators but sped up and more consistent (consistency of results that is).
But to make an accurate study about that you will have to lock in a bunch of humans for their entire life without any sunlight and expose one group to occasional tanning (while excluding them from sunlight) and completely banning tanning for the other (while exposing them to sunlight more often). They all have to eat the same food all the time, do the same things all the time, etc.
Ethically this is obviously impossible to pull off, which is why we will probably forever be kinda stepping in the dark about how often this contributes to getting skin cancer since many users never get skin cancer at all. Its kinda like smoking, where smoking can cause lung cancer and various other types of cancer but most people who smoke never get cancer.
After all - producing melanine is what your body does to protect itself from future sunlight to prevent further damage. Darker skin has more melanine in it making it tougher towards sunlight. From that logic people with Skin type V or VI (black people or people with rather dark skin) should be less prone to skin cancer caused by sunlight, while skin types I and II (middle europeans and especially nordic or british people (they are literally burnt across their entire body once a ray of sunlight touches their finger tip for 1ms)). Albinos should be especially at risk since their body is unable to produce melanine resulting in absolutely 0 protection towards sun light. And your body produces melanine after visiting the sun studio (which is the desired effect).
So how much more or less dangerous are sun bathing and tanning compared to each other?
I'm sorry but I think this is a very weak video, especially considering the quality of your other videos. Without a comparison to natural tanning and sun exposure we get outside we know nothing about the relative risks. Is 20 minutes in the summer sun on a beach worse/equal/better than 20 minutes under a tanning bed? There is also the difference in UVa and UVb radiation between exposures.
What is the risk of a light tan in general? A light tan could provide protection against normal outdoor sun exposure as you are much less likely to get sunburnt if you have a tan. Is there a difference in cancer risk between sunburns and regular tans?
Tanning beds emit roughly 12x more UVA light than regular sunlight. They give you a 75% increased risk of melanoma.
@@elizabethsmith9624 source?
@@fabian2314 Source: https ://www.who.int/uv/publications/en/sunbeds.pdf
“Some machines have the capacity to emit levels of UV radiation up to five times stronger than the midday Australian summer sun. Such intensity in a largely unregulated industry where training of staff is not mandatory increases the health risks considerably. The risk is greater in unsupervised commercial sunbed operations and when sunbeds are used in the home, where the duration of UV radiation exposure is up to the discretion of the individual.”
“A sunbed-acquired tan offers only limited protection against sunburn from solar UV radiation. A tan developed in a sunbed has in most cases only the same protective effect as a SPF 2 or 3 sunscreen”
Source: Hawk J. Sunbeds. Radiat Prot Dosimetry 2000; 9(1-3):143-145. Cites Devgun M, Johnson B, Patterson C. Tanning, protection against sunburn and vitamin D formation with a UVA sunbed. Br J Dermatol 1982;107:275-84.
I gave you a thumbs up but I didn’t really learn anything I was looking for numbers and percentages and I don’t feel like I know more than I did when I started just constructive criticism
Yes
in moderation its ok we need light. Thats why people in the UK are depressed in winter times. Have you noticed people are happy when the suns out.
Get some vitamin D supplements.
@@MajorBuzzKill supplements are more fake and lab created than the sunshine which is the natural way to get vitamin D. There really is no proof what causes cancer otherwise there would’ve been a cure for it as well decades ago. You can live perfectly sheltered life and avoid all the the things that governments and medical people tell you cause cancer and still get cancer
Here’s the rub, nomadic people’s of Africa have minimal melanoma. It’s similar to plants that get sun struck. Acclimatise or die.
Ironic that the next vid up (CZcams's fault) is a girl offering her bronzing tips! Some of the commenters there try to explain the risks, but to no avail...
David Bradley Ha - interesting to see how many bronzing tips videos are followed by this one!
The thing is, as with lots of things that harm people, they like doing them...
Hmmm...NOT a fair point...people don't realise how risky these things are, this is helping to inform them so that they can decide not to wreck their DNA for the sake of making their skin brown. I don't think he says anything about making them illegal anyway, does he?
THATS ALL VERY INTERESTING AND HELPFUL. HOWEVER AGAIN EVERYTHING IN MODERATION.3 MINUTES PER SESSION TWICE WEEKLY EQUALS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. 😊
Note that”occasional sun exposure “was dangerous. This i
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What complete non-sense.
What a complete "moron" you are
Ooo, what an insiteful reply. Your the one who is a brainwashed sheep.
If you want to tan is your problem.... I preffer "covered to light and exposed to darkness" because you get a better life in dark than in light.