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subscribe to beauty blog via RSSBig Brother Strikes Again; Tanorexics Take Pause
March 24, 2009 1:09 pm
It looks like bikini waxes aren’t the only thing state governments are trying to regulate. The latest beauty news to hit the blogosphere is proposed restrictions on tanning for teens in both Texas and Florida. Being compared to Big Tobacco legislation that makes it illegal for people under the age of 18 to buy cigarettes, the proposed bill in the Lone Star State would require minors to get a doctor’s note before using a tanning bed and would also necessitate that a parent be with them during the treatment. Florida lawmakers are going as far as to propose a total ban on fake-baking for teens under the age of 16. Perhaps not shockingly, the Indoor Tanning Association has taken issue with the bills, arguing that they give consumers the false impression that artificial UV exposure is dangerous. But seeing as how 29 states already restrict minors’ access to tanning beds and the World Health Organization recommends that no one under the age of 18 be permitted to use them at all, perhaps the ITA needs to own up, just a bit. Do you think government involvement in risky beauty treatments is a well-founded precautionary measure, or do you see it more as Uncle Sam overstepping a boundary?
tags: Skincare, Tanning beds
i definitely agree with the no tanning for minors for sure-growing up on Long Island (dare I admit it) most girls are fake tanned and they go at least once a week (this was what I knew in high school, which means these girls were under 18). It’s so not healthy and you can only tell them how bad it is for them so many times before you realize that hey, maybe we need to regulate on this because um hello skin cancer.
By ashbeauty on 03/24/09 at 1:28 pm