Seeing as Smoking is seen as a topic that is 'Being Bad' because of the potential health risks, I thought that doing a blog on Sunbeds would be just as acceptable for a Being Bad blog. Even though it's not bad behaviour, it is causing harm to your body and can also become something that people are addicted to. It is also strange for me actually doing a blog about something that I have experienced, along with 3 Million regular sunbed users in Britain.
It is said that twenty minutes on a sunbed is equivalent to a full day abroad on the beach, so the idea of going on seems so attractive because lets face it, everyone looks better with a tan! However, with rises in skin cancer and melanoma in young women, it is obvious that sunbeds are causing trouble to these girls (including myself, I will admit) who could be called "tanorexics". Illnesses associated with UV ray damage are becoming more common than breast cancer in girls, so why aren't there more safety precautions involved in Sunbed use?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168407/The-tanorexia-timebomb-Sunbeds-blamed-skin-cancer-soars-young-women.html
Unlike smoking, drugs or alcohol, there are no political campaigns or adverts to try and disaude the public to use sunbeds, there are no health risks plastered over the sunbeds, unlike cigarette packets and there are certainly no classes to help people stop with their addiction to Sunbeds.
It is said, however that sunbeds can be good for acne or psoriasis, however the question we really need to ask is it really worth getting Skin Cancer just so we can have a tan?
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