Some High School Students in Brighton and Campbellford seem to be ignoring warnings about the cancer risk posed by tanning beds.
A survey of thirteen-hundred students’ attitudes towards tanning was held during the last school year by the health unit at those schools and four other secondary schools in Port Hope, Lindsay and Peterborough.
It found 14 to 17 per cent of the respondents said they used artificial tanning equipment, even though 20 per cent of the students surveyed linked cancer to tanning.
Health Unit Public Health Nurse Karen Taylor says many students know the risk of tanning and tanning beds, but don’t think it will effect them.
