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COMMENTS: Ultra Violet Appalachia
The Lancet inspired CBS' in-house physician Jon LaPook to warn some of us to stay away from tanning salons. The medical journal has changed its rating of a salon's ultra-violet rays--no longer a probable cause of cancer; now it is definite. There are 25,000 such salons nationwide with 30m customers. Dr LaPook told us that white-skinned people under the age of 35 are most at risk. Melanoma among young white women is now 50% more common than it was 30 years ago. The cities where tanning salons are most popular are in the Appalachian north--Pittsburgh, Charleston WV and Akron.
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