Young White Women, Killing Themselves by Tanning
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July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Despite the hoopla over dysfunctionin Washington, the government can still do useful things. Toprove it, the Food and Drug Administration should moveaggressively to implement and then strengthen its proposedcancer warnings about tanning beds.
A stunning 20 million to 30 million Americans each year usetanning beds. Use is particularly concentrated among young whitewomen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimatedthat about 30 percent of white women between the ages of 18 and25 used an indoor tanning machine in 2010. And about 60 percentof that group did so at least 10 times during the year.