Indoor Tanning on Decline | newsmaine

Between 2010 and 2013, the percentage of adults using indoor tanning beds fell from 5.5 percent to 4.2 percent, the researchers report. While the body would possibly not appears much, actually it has shown that 2 million fewer people at large take to the product to avail a suntan.

There still is a perception that tanning beds are safer than sunbathing, but Guy pointed out in an email that there is no evidence to support this idea.

There has been a concern that not enough people are fully aware of the risks involved in using tanning beds and other tanning devices.

Gery P. Guy Jr, the lead author of the study and a health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said that they believe this decline is because of the increase in awareness about how these indoor tanning beds are harmful for people.

For the study, Guy and his colleagues analyzed data for more than 59,000 individuals from the 2010 and 2013 National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative sample of US adults.

However, even though the study points out that the number of people using these tanning beds is declining, there are still around 1.9 million men and 7.8 million women that tan indoors. Studies repeatedly show that indoor tanning increases skin cancer risk.

In addition to the overall reduction, they found that indoor tanning dropped most decreased among those in the 18-29 years old age group, 11.3 percent in in 2010 to 8.6 percent in 2013. He also said that one important aspect that is easily overlooked by people is that tan is just a temporary thing, while skin cancer is a awful and permanent one. They add that this age group, however, is still responsible for the majority of the potentially risky use of indoor tanning beds.

Exposure to UV radiation from indoor tanning is more harmful than the UV exposure from the Sunday.

Guy concluded: “Appearance-focused behavioral interventions stressing that indoor tanning can cause premature wrinkles and age spots have been shown to be effective in reducing indoor tanning“.

According to CDC, skin cancer is at the top of the list of most common forms of cancer in the USA, with an estimated 137,000 people being affected by it only in the 2015 alone.

New research suggests that the indoor tanning trend seems to have reached its peak in the United States.