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- Title
The Growing Public Health Challenges of Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation From Use of Indoor Tanning Devices in the United States.
- Authors
Bowman, Diana M.; Lewis, Ryan C.; Lee, Maximilian S.; Yao, Catherine J.
- Abstract
Ultraviolet radiation is recognized as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the world's authority on cancer research. In particular, exposure to ultraviolet radiation can lead to melanoma of the skin, which is the deadliest form of skin cancer in the United States. Yet despite the significant public health burden that is associated with skin cancer in the United States, each year over a million Americans engage in indoor tanning where exposure to artificial ultraviolet radiation occurs. In this article, we argue for an immediate ban on the use of commercial indoor tanning by minors and, based on international precedents, the phasing out of all commercial tanning operations in the United States. We consider the use of indoor tanning devices in the United States, epidemiological data on indoor tanning devices and cancer, regulation of tanning devices, and scientific evidence for increased government intervention.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EFFECT of ultraviolet radiation on skin; SKIN cancer; TANNING (Hides &; skins); PUBLIC health; INTERNATIONAL Agency for Research on Cancer; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
1048-2911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1048291115586416