Unfortunately, tanners have an attitudinal inherency preventing stronger enforced tannings laws due to the belief that a tan is deemed as a healthy look.

According to SkinCancer.org ,"One out of three teenagers say they tan because it looks healthy.  In fact, in an AAD survey, more than 80 percent of people aged 25 and younger said they looked better with a tan."

How they conclude that tanning is a healthy LOOK, may be the work of the media and beauty magazines, but what scientific research has concluded is that Ultraviolet light is anything but healthy.

FACTS:
New, high-pressure sunlamps emit doses of both UVA and UVB rays that can be as much as 15 times that of the sun. A U.K. study found that human skin cells exposed to tanning beds in a laboratory sustained severe DNA damage of the type that is associated with skin cancer development