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    California imposes tanning salon ban for kids under 18

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Kids under eighteen in California can spend their free time at the beach or the mall but starting in January they cannot be inside -- bit.

Governor Jerry Brown yesterday signed a bill raising the legal age for tanning -- eighteen.

31 other states restrict the use -- tanning -- by minors but California's the first abandon entirely for -- seventeen and under.

Supporters of the bill point to a link between the radiation in those tanning beds and skin cancer.

Which the American Cancer Society reports will kill almost 121000 people this year alone.

But many tanning salon owners say the ban would put a severe dent in their business.

Trace Gallagher live in Los Angeles how serious is this cancer risk -- Well there are many studies show that say it's very serious in -- the World Health Organization now says that tanning beds are a level one carcinogen the skin cancer institute.

Says that those who tanned indoors are 74%.

More likely to develop melanoma.

And -- Stanford study of California women between the ages of fifteen and 39 now says that skin cancer rates for them over the past ten years.

Has doubled and it's even worse for women in high income areas who have more time to spend apparently indoor and outdoor tanning listen now to the lawmaker who sponsored the bill.

Because that way to disease works -- you won't know -- Got skin cancer after you -- -- these tanning sessions sometimes two years later that's why it's so dangerous.

Yeah 31 other states you mentioned have tanning bed laws but New York Ohio Illinois and Rhode Island now considering passing.

The exact same laws California under eighteen.

No indoor tanning -- are there enough under -- using these things that it would have some sort of impact on the tanning salon industry.

The industry says there are -- I mean there it's a five billion dollar industry in 10% of their clientele are under the age of eighteen the Indoor Tanning Association says that California is basing this law.

On unproven science and they can point to their own studies that say.

Indoor tanning provides vitamin.

The industry says and I'm quoting here the recession -- already hit this industry hard leading to 25%.

Of the professional indoor tanning salons to close in California since 2009 the legislature.

Should be looking for ways to assist economic growth.

Not harm it.

And San Diego State University says there are actually more tanning salons in Southern California then there are.

Starbucks.

Or McDonald's.

And it's always sunny so go figure -- is it true -- that read David.

Kids get most of their sun exposure before they ever get to eighteen.

-- it's a common fallacy -- but it's not true doctors say they only get about 23%.

Of their total lifetime sun before they're age eighteen by the time they're forty years old.

They get about 42%.

Of their son and the rest comes over the rest of their life so that the message theory is is that it NEA.

Age you should not be indoor tanning because they say it's dangerous of course the industry says that it's not dangerous in that it's actually.

Good for -- But right now it's against the law in California under the age of eighteen -- Trace Gallagher live in LA Trace thanks women.

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