Teen Tanning Ban Passed by California Legislature: No Fake Bake For You, Young Lady

By Dennis Romero Fri., Sep. 2 2011 at 3:27 PM

Categories: WTF

No can do.

California has challenges, like a perpetually stormy, multi-billion-dollar deficit hanging over our heads, a public-university system, once the best in the world, with near private-school prices, and the imminent release of 33,000 state prisoners.

So South Bay Sen. Ted Lieu has done what all good politicians do: Run the hell away from that mess and focus on something easy but meaningless.

And that would be underage teens getting their fake-bake on.

Yeah, we told you previously about Lieu's healthy obsession with teen tan lines.

Now his bill to ban the under-18 set from using tanning beds in California is pretty much a done deal. It passed the state senate today, and now all it needs is Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.

Lieu:

Scientific research has shown conclusively that tanning beds cause skin cancer. The younger kids are when they start using tanning beds, the greater the cumulative damage to their skin and the more likely they are to die of skin cancer.

Problems solved.

If Brown signs this, it will go into effect Jan. 1. Tanning salons will have to card patrons, and we expect there will also be velvet ropes and a douche in the back selling ecstasy.

Thanks Ted.

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more uninformed BS. Two major studies just came out...First, a 20 year study with 50,000 woman showed tanning once a week in a tanning bed reduced breast cancer by 34%! In otherwords, 1 in every 3 woman who would have contracted breast cancer didnt get it because of the proper levels of Vitamin D they received thru their tanning sessions. Vitamin that cannot properly be absorbed in great enough quantites any other way. Second, a 45% reduction of Colon Cancer in its subjects. Yes there you have it. The Pharmaceutical Lobbyists have won again....Since the Sun is free it has no lobby.

Senator Lieu

Thank you Dennis for highlighting this bill, and for putting in that scientific research shows conclusively that tanning beds cause skin cancer. Hopefully your article will potentially save some folks from unnecessarily getting skin cancer.