There is a law being passed out right now that says that minors are not allowed to be using tanning beds. The ban was made to limit the spread of dangerous skin cancer. The government want to stop cancer from spreading to the youth. Studies have shown that tanning beds can raise your chance of getting skin cancer by a lot.
Many beleive that people who use tanning beds underage are mainly doing it to look like their friends. Many people also beleive the youth don't know the actual risks from using tanning beds. They can get a dangerous skin cancer called melanoma. Melanoma could be easily be avoided if they never used tanning beds in the first place. By banning tanning beds from the youth, there would be less deaths and cases of cancer.
On the other hand, some people beleive that it is a restriction of rights. The "The Joint Canada Tanning Association" say that the parents of the children should decide whether or not their children use tanning beds. They think that by letting parents decide, children would be able to tan more responsibly. They beleive that the ban is too hard on the youth and they should be able to tan if they want to.
Personally, I beleive that the ban should pass. There are too many people dieing from cancer right now. The ban would help alot with reducing the number of people who die every
year. Cancer is a big problem right now. Banning tanning beds make it so cancer wouldn't be so much of a problem.
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