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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• A profitable industry
• or a
• Health hazard
• to
• Our children

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Obvious Problems are sometimes
• right under your nose

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Obvious Problems are sometimes
• right under your nose

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Obvious Problems are sometimes
• right under your nose
• But, no one cares

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• No controls over industry
• Health Claims

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• No controls over industry
• Health Claims
• Health inspections lacking

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• No controls over industry
• Health Claims bogus
• Health inspections lacking
• No legal standards of operations

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• No controls over industry
• Health claims bogus
• Health inspections lacking
• No legal standards of operations
• Promotions to children

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Health claims bogus
• Heliotropic effects of the sun

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Health claims bogus
• Heliotropic effects of the sun
• FTC actions against sunbed promoters

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Health Claims bogus
• Heliotropic effects of the sun
• FTC actions against sunbed promoters none in
  Canada
• They cant make health claims but they do

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Lobbying for the lobster look
• Suntan promoters have money

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Lobbying for the lobster look
• Suntan promoters have money
• Fashion Body-Building

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Lobbying for the lobster look
• Suntan promoters have money
• Fashion Body-Building
• Billboards Buses Mall Posters

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Lobbying for the lobster look
• Suntan promoters have money
• Fashion Body-Building
• Billboards Buses Mall Posters
• Coupons Penny Saver - Newspapers

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Self-regulation fails
• No mandate from Ottawa

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Self-regulation fails
• No mandate from Ottawa
• No consumer protection from Toronto

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Self-regulation fails
• No mandate from Ottawa
• No consumer protection from Toronto
• No inspections from the Region

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Self-regulation fails
• No mandate from Ottawa
• No consumer protection from Toronto
• No inspections from the Region
• No industry standards in effect

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Promoters cover-up risks
• Failure to assess skin type

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Promoters cover-up risks
• Failure to assess skin type
• Failure to require medical history

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Promoters cover-up risks
• Failure to assess skin type
• Failure to require medical history
• Failure to confirm age

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Promoters cover-up risks
• Failure to assess skin type
• Failure to require medical history
• Failure to confirm age
• Failure to tell clients about dangers

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Promoters cover-up risks
• Failure to assess skin type
• Failure to require medical history
• Failure to confirm age
• Failure to tell clients about dangers
• Failure to record and report side-effects

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Personal Experience
• 16 year old post-partum burn

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Personal Experience
• 16 year old post-partum burn
• 13-14 year olds for school prom

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Personal Experience
• 16 year old post-partum burn
• 13-14 year olds for school prom
• 16 year old garage sale burn
• Then she does it again

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Personal Experience
• 16 year old post-partum burn
• 13-14 year olds for school prom
• 16 year old garage sale burn
• Then she does it again
• Coupons handed out by teens

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Personal Experience
• 16 year old post-partum burn
• 13-14 year olds for school prom
• 16 year old garage sale burn
• Then she does it again
• Coupons handed out by teens to friends
• Tanorectic psychiatric patient on meds

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• More Personal Experience
• Teenage patient working in parlor

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• More Personal Experience
• Teenage patient working in parlor
• Donation to Cancer Centre?

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change
• Minimum age 19 for tanning

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change
• Minimum age 19 for tanning
• Minimum age 19 for employment

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change
• Minimum age 19 for tanning
• Minimum age 19 for employment
• Provincial testing for workers

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change
• Minimum age 19 for tanning
• Minimum age 19 for employment
• Provincial testing for workers
• Local inspectors to be trained to inspect
  equipment

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change
• Minimum age 19 for tanning
• Minimum age 19 for employment
• Provincial testing for workers
• Local inspectors to be trained to inspect
  equipment
• Registration of all U.V. equipment

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change - 2
• Pass local by-law to regulate sunbeds

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change - 2
• Pass local by-law to regulate sunbeds
• Charge owners with violations

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change - 2
• Pass local by-law to regulate sunbeds
• Charge owners with violation
• Annual license fees for each bed

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change - 2
• Pass local by-law to regulate sunbeds
• Charge owners with violation
• Annual license fees for each bed
• Mandatory reporting of injuries to Health
  Department

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Proposals for change - 2
• Pass local by-law to regulate sunbeds
• Charge owners with violation
• Annual license fees for each bed
• Mandatory reporting of injuries to Health
  Department
• Statistics for each operator made public

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Summary
• Urgent need for action

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Summary
• Urgent need for action
• Tanning Industry out of control

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Summary
• Urgent need for action
• Tanning Industry out of control
• Parents convinced beds are safe

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Summary
• Urgent need for action
• Tanning Industry out of control
• Parents convinced beds are safe
• Children are victimized abused

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Summary
• Urgent need for action
• Tanning Industry out of control
• Parents convinced beds are safe
• Children are victimized abused
• Skin cancer rate increased

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Sunbed Tanning Promotions

• Summary
• Urgent need for action
• Tanning Industry out of control
• Parents convinced beds are safe
• Children are victimized abused
• Skin cancer rate increased
• Tanning industry must be accountable

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