Here's an essay by dermatologists on the risks on tanning booths:
Prior to their diagnoses of melanoma, Meghan Rothschild and Lexi Lewis were two of the estimated 2 to 3 million teens that use indoor tanning beds. In spite of repeated health warnings issued in the media about the risks of indoor tanning, neither was prepared to find out that she had melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Meghan Rothschild was only 20 years old when she was diagnosed with Stage II melanoma. "I wasn´t a sun worshipper," says Meghan. "I had maybe two sunburns in my life before I was diagnosed with melanoma." Meghan believes her "innocent" weekly visits to the tanning beds caused her cancer. "I´m a pale, redhead who had never had a tan," she says. "But when I was 17 years old, I got a tan from a tanning bed and loved the way I looked with it. So I started going to the tanning bed once a week for 20 minutes each time."
