"There was also a sense of guilt because I was tanning's biggest advocate. "Now I see that I was brainwashed by the industry, but I thought I was really well-trained," she said. Neale said she thought she knew all the facts about indoor tanning because she was trained on the topic. Neale said she started using tanning beds at the age of 16, against her parents' wishes.Īfter graduating from high school, she worked in a tanning salon and tanned regularly for five years, she said. "I called my mom and I was hysterical and I said, 'You need to call the doctor's office because I can't talk to them.'" Kate Neale of Belleville, Ont., says she started using tanning beds when she was 16 years old, and tanned regularly for five years after graduating from high school. The Joint Canadian Tanning Association, a national industry group, promotes a policy of getting parental consent for anyone under the age of 18 who wants to use tanning beds. Landells, who teaches at Memorial University and is a former president of the Canadian Dermatology Association, is calling for a ban on the use of tanning beds by minors. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers ultraviolet radiation-emitting tanning devices as "carcinogenic to humans," adding that childhood exposure to UV radiation is known to increase the risk of developing melanoma later in life. So if you use a tanning bed once between the age of 18 and 25 … you've increased your risk of melanoma 41 per cent," he added, citing a 2010 study published in the International Journal of Cancer. "The younger you are when you start using them, the higher the chance of getting melanoma. The law permits it the law does permit that children can go in," said Dr. "I find it very disturbing but it doesn't surprise me. In those cases, the girls did not use the tanning beds. In 20 out of 31 cases - about 65 per cent of the time - the teenagers were allowed into the tanning room. They did not reveal their ages unless asked.
John's - were asked by CBC News to go to salons and ask if they could have a tanning session. Teenage girls in six cities - Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Windsor and St. A CBC News test of tanning salons across Canada shows people under 18 are being allowed to tan without their parents' consent, contrary to voluntary industry guidelines.
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