The tanner then most always feels sick, it takes longer for him or her to get over an infection, and he or she most always feels tired. .
Tanning beds also cause eye problems. In Modern Medicine, Indoor Tanning Is Just as Dangerous as Outdoor Tanning, Rex Amonette and James Spencer, whom both are doctors state that, "acute corneal burns, conjuctival thickening after repeated and prolonged exposure, and eventually, cataract formation" are caused from the bulbs in a tanning bed. The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) made it a law that there be goggles available to the customers in tanning parlors. Simply shutting ones eyes or wearing sunglass is not enough (1). The problem with the goggles is that most tanners do not wear them because they create white rings around the eye area. .
Tanning in tanning beds also makes the skin leathery, wrinkled, and saggy, this process is known as photo-aging. This means that when a person is about 30 years old he or she will look as if they are much older. Most tanners say that the number one reason to tan is to have that golden look that they see on television and see in magazines and to be beautiful, but the dangers that one subjects his or herself to is not worth the dark color of skin. Gutfeld and Sangiorgio have compared tanning to smoking cigarettes in their article Fake and Bake, the only difference is that tanning effects the entire body and not just in the lungs and mouth. .
Only in the last five or six years have doctors discovered the dangers of the UVA light discharged from the bulbs in the beds as being so dangerous (Munson and Yeykal ). The people that have been tanning for years are addicted, almost like a drug addiction, and have not been aware of the detrimental health problems they have gotten themselves into when they first started tanning. Customers are often told that artificial tanning is safe, which is not true. Tanning in a tanning bed is not worth the health of an individual just for a temporary tan that will fade over time.
