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The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

With prom coming up many girls think they have to be tan because it is the social norm, but natural skin is beautiful and going tanning in a bed is not worth the risk. According to melanoma.org, "As many as 90% of melanomas are estimated to be caused by ultraviolet (UV) exposure. This includes UV exposure from the sun and from artificial sources, such as tanning beds."

Self tanning offers safer alternatives to the sun

May 13, 2016

With prom coming up, many girls are worried about a common thing: how they are going to get the 'perfect tan.' As tanning beds are beginning to go out of style, safer alternatives are setting in. Many...

Graphic by Emily Lodahl

Indoor tanning should be illegal to minors

Andrea Rustad December 15, 2013

Rates of melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer, increased 800 percent among young women in the last 40 years. Widespread use of indoor tanning greatly contributes to this alarming change. Indoor tanning...

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