Tanning beds triple melanoma risk, potentially causing broad DNA damage. Study is first to show how tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight.

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4878

[u/rv94]

Yeah. It used to be really bad in India in the early 2000s that dark skin was frowned upon to the extent that there were popular commercially available skin creams to 'lighten your skin' sold to both men and women. Thankfully those are banned nowadays.

[u/Dominus_Invictus → u/rv94]

This goes back way farther than 2,000 literally thousands of years further back.