Personal Injury Law

Doctors want teenagers banned from tanning salons

By Hurley, McKenna & Mertz

The American Academy of Pediatrics ?wants teenagers banned from tanning salons to reduce their risk of skin cancer.? (Chicago AP, 2/28). This stance is part of a policy statement released in the Journal of Pediatrics to encourage bills regulating tanning by minors, a core group of consumers.

Although more than half the states regulated indoor tanning by minors, some states including Illinois and New York are considering bills that would ban tanning for anyone under the age of 18, regardless of parental consent. As a personal injury attorney in Chicago, I strongly encourage all consumers to avoid indoor tanning.

Parents must discuss the risks of indoor tanning with their children, and indoor tanning has been linked to malignant melanoma and should be avoided. Last year, about 8,700 people died of melanoma last year and over 68,000 new cases of melanoma were diagnosed.

Full post as published by Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).