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... Tuscaloosa PULSE (http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/pulse) (advertisement) home stories sports ask scarlet reviews weird news Amber Kirkland, 18, demonstrates the use of a tanning bed in her parents’ home in Lake View on March 23.

Kirkland says she tans every day.

STAFF PHOTO ILLUSTRATION If tanning is harmfull, why doesn't the skin of young people show these harmful effects?

Skin aging and cancer are delayed effects that don't usually show up for many years after the exposure.

Since the damage is not immediately visible, young people are often unaware of the dangers of tanning.

Physicians and scientists are especially concerned that cases of skin cancer will continue to increase as people who are now in their teens and twenties reach middle age.Source: www.fda.gov Tanning taboo Is getting that golden glow ever safe?

By Daniel Gaddy Staff Writer March 28.

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Two girls go into a small room for what they think will be a relaxing half hour of tanning.

They get into the tanning beds, put on the protective goggles and chat aimlessly.

Suddenly, a shelf falls on the two beds trapping both of them in the capsules.

Condensation forms on a soda left on the control board of the tanning beds, which eventually shorts out the board.

The beds begin pumping out ultraviolet rays at a lethal rate.

OK, maybe no one is concerned about burning alive when they go to a tanning bed like in this scene from “Final Destination 3." However, use of ...

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