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We’re gearing up to make Smart Tan Downtown 2011 the most powerful educational conference you have ever attended. To make that possible, we want your input. You can help us out by answering a few questions about what you want …

Almost half of all tanning operators say their indoor tanning businesses performed better than expected, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the last week of the month — a good sign that 2011 is starting off …

According to the Standard-Examiner, the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners is challenging the FTC’s authority to bar them from shutting down non-licensed businesses performing teeth whitening services. The dental board says that its grounds for challenge stems from …

State lawmakers in South Dakota rejected a proposal Monday that would have required tanning facilities to require parental consent before under-18 clients could use sunbeds — a practice salons told a state senate committee they already do without the state’s …

A U.S. District judge ruled the new health care law unconstitutional on Monday according to the New York Times. Judge Roger Vinson is the second federal judge to find the law unconstitutional, which evens out the rulings at two in …

Smart Tan will hold its 16th annual educational conference and trade show Oct. 14-16, 2011 in downtown Nashville at the Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Hotel – a venue that has proved to be the most-affordable and most-entertaining option for …

“Most but not all dermatologists maintain, I believe quite wrongly, that a tan is unhealthy. Sadly, Cancer Research UK has accepted this misguided advice uncritically and so has wrongly advised the public on sun exposure over a long period — …

White House Chief Economic Advisory Austan Goolsbee told a Congressional committee Wednesday that the 10 percent luxury tax on indoor tanning services was not actually a tax on middle-class Americans but rather was a “choice” — a distinction that has …