On the heels of this morning’s announcement that tanning beds are as carcinogenic as tobacco or asbestos, the Indoor Tanning Association is starting to fight back. Indoor Tanning Association President, Dan Humiston has taken the stand that medical warnings such as this morning’s (Tanning Beds Deemed High Cancer Risk) are scaremongering and will damage small businesses.

The association does acknowledge that ultraviolet can be dangerous. In an ad to appear in tomorrow’s New York Post, they say,
UV light from a tanning bed is the same as UV light from the sunshine, which has had the “group 1” classification since 1992.
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