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Article: The dark truth: Many still go to tanning salons and sunbathe on beaches, despite the cancer risks.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2007
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Byline: Dennis O'Brien
Jun. 7--Jenny Hetrick knows that tanning increases the risk of skin cancer, but for two years she's been a regular customer at Electric Beach tanning salon in Odenton.
Warnings about exposure to ultraviolet light -- from the sun and tanning lamps -- are not lost on her. But when the weather warms up, she likes to wear shorts and short-sleeved tops and, like her friends, she wants to look good in them. So she compromises and limits her tanning salon visits to about two a week.
"I think it's right that people should be careful. For teenage girls, tanning can really be addictive," said Hetrick, 20, of Severn.
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