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Fake tans: dangerous or just unattractive?

Tan The Indoor Tanning Association launches a marketing campaign today to try to convince the pastier among us that artificial tanning is not dangerous, contrary to some reports. You can see the group’s big New York Times ad here, which is notable for putting the words “Tanning causes melanoma” in giant type. (The word “Hype” is then stamped on, too, but you’ve already started to wonder.) The group claims that studies warning against prolonged tanning in the sun or use of indoor tanning beds have relied on “junk science.” Whether or not artificial tanning is dangerous, we point once again to this Holiday Inn commercial to demonstrate that it can certainly be funny.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

March 27, 2008 in Nudd | Permalink

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I had to create an ad for one of those tanning booth "salons" once. The literature they provided for me was so riddled with lies that I felt ill promoting it.

Regardless of whether it causes cancer, you only have to look at one of the wrinkled leather faces of a regular tanning bed user to see that it damages your skin.

Posted by: | Mar 27, 2008 11:28:33 AM

"The literature they provided for me was so riddled with lies that I felt ill promoting it."

And which lies were those?

Posted by: John | Mar 27, 2008 1:53:06 PM

Sorry to see your job makes you ill.

Sounds like a mental illness.

Posted by: Jim | Mar 28, 2008 1:54:41 AM

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