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Teens flocking to tanning booths despite links to skin cancer.
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The Seattle Times (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
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August 6, 2003
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2003 The Seattle Times. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Julia Sommerfeld
SEATTLE _ Like her favorite pop star, 13-year-old Jenna O'Keeffe streaks her hair with blond and red, wears low-slung jeans and bares a richly bronzed belly.
"Christina Aguilera is really tan," the teen said. "So I like to get as tan as I possibly can."
O'Keeffe, who is naturally light-skinned, toasts herself in a tanning bed about once a week to maintain a tawny hue.
Despite skin-cancer scare tactics from doctors and wrinkle warnings from women's magazines, bronzed skin is back. The indoor-tanning trend has become a fashion mandate among the teeny-bopper set.
Dermatologists are dejected: Turns out the fair skin of the past decade ...
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