Sunbeds As Bad As Asbestos ; New Research has Seen Sunbeds Reclassified As Carcinogenic After the Full Impact of Using Them has Finally Been Revealed. Victoria Watson Finds Out How People Are Literally Dying for a Tan

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OVER a century ago, porcelain-white skin was a sign of a well- bred lady. Women sometimes went as far as to use arsenic to lighten their skin without realising the damage they were doing to their health.

Nowadays women - and men - are posing as much of a risk to their health by spending time on sunbeds which the World Health Organisation - WHO - has now classified as dangerous as cigarettes or asbestos.

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Sunbeds As Bad As Asbestos ; New Research has Seen Sunbeds Reclassified As Carcinogenic After the Full Impact of Using Them has Finally Been Revealed. Victoria Watson Finds Out How People Are Literally Dying for a Tan

As Nina Goad, of the British Association of Dermatologists, explains: "We know that ultraviolet radiation - UVR - causes skin cancer, and sunbeds create a tan by emit...

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