Many Young Adults at Risk of Skin Cancer: CDC

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If you actually dig into the statistics, skin cancer causes less than 0.5% of total deaths in America.
In other words, young people that use tanning beds to elevate mood, look cool, etc. are ***a lot*** smarter than young people that smoke cigarettes to achieve the same effect.
But "young people making intelligent cost/benefit decisions" wouldn't make a good headline, so we get this tripe instead.

James McMurtry of TX 5:09PM May 10, 2012

Dr. Plescia, of CDC says "We are concerned that tanning is becoming more prevalent... The problem is you don't see the cancers crop up until 10 to 15 years later,"
but later in this article.."The fact that melanoma rates are higher among young white women than young white men might be explained by their more frequent use of indoor tanning"
How is that it takes 10-15 years to appear, but yet they claim that tanning beds are causing the melanoma in young women? What age did these women start to tan indoors? 3 years old? How are they separating indoor exposure vs outdoor exposure? Clearly, more answers needed on this.

Joe of GA 4:47PM May 10, 2012