Tanning beds are aging machines
Posted in Dermatology | General on May 18, 2010
Tanning beds are to your skin as smoking is to your lungs
There is a good reason tanning beds look similar to coffins. If they don't put you in the coffin you will soon look like your getting old enough to need one. Tanning beds are listed along with mustard gas and arsenic in the highest cancer risk category. They cause melanoma in young people. I like to call them aging machines. They accelerate skin aging, causing mottled pigmentation, thinned collagen, furrows and wrinkles- basically alligator skin. So I beg you: DON'T DO IT! DON'T GO TO THE LIGHT!