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> I think they were common, say 80's/90's, but I don't see them much anymore. I think you might just have aged out of the group that uses them. Young people te
by light_hue_1 4y ago
> I think they were common, say 80's/90's, but I don't see them much anymore.
I think you might just have aged out of the group that uses them. Young people tend to use them a lot. Something like 1 in 5 people in their 20s have used one in the past year in many western countries.
The statistics are pretty horrific. Looks like you're increasing your lifetime risk of skin cancer by a good 20% by doing this.
- Semaphor 4y agoWhere are those statistics from? I was wondering because using a tanning bed has always been a low-class thing and something to be ridiculed when I was in my early 20ies (I’m 36). German Wikipedia [0] has it at its highest 80ies/90ies, the stats they mention are for 14-45 year olds: 2012: 14.6 %; 2015: 11 %; 2018: 8.8 % [0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarium https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarium
- yakak 4y agoIn the english version, there's a study of the average over multiple anglo and European countries, perhaps Germany was significantly lower than the average: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117411/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117411/
- Semaphor 4y agoYeah, but that stops with 2012 data, and for "last-year-exposure" the data is actually pretty thin for university students and adolescents: https://i.imgur.com/1Xly88x.png https://i.imgur.com/1Xly88x.png (Supplement, eFigure)