Topic: Tanning

What the Tweet?

Girl Shoving, Mayonnaise Making, and Midwestern Tanning

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After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense

By Elspeth Reeve

May 2, 2012

Is Ridiculing Tan Mom Beyond the Pale?

For ever and ever, women have been unfairly judged for something they can change only slightly at the margins -- their physical appearance -- while men have been free to be heinous, and it's been a change for the better that mocking women for their looks like has become less acceptable.

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By Eric Randall

May 2, 2012

The Burning Issue News Outlets Barely Touch in Tanning Bed Mom Story

Hundreds of news outlets are picking up the story of Patricia Krentcil, a New Jersey woman who allegedly brought her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, but some outlets aren't acknowledging the obvious reason they're elevating a local news report: the woman is painfully, cringe-inducingly tan.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 1, 2012

Tanning Salons, Like Teenage Boys, Will Completely Lie to Teenage Girls

A new congressional report out today found that tanning salons will say anything to get customers into their beds, but in order to get this valuable information congressional investigators even went so far as to pretending they were pale teenage girls.

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By Ted Mann

Oct 10, 2011

California Teens To Get Skin Cancer The Old-Fashioned Way

Gov. Jerry Brown signs a law banning people under 18 from tanning beds, citing health risks

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