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In my other life, I teach high school English, and every year around mid-January, the girls start sliding into their desks, red-faced and ashamed, taunted by the grins of their classmates. You might think they were blushing at first glance, …

The indoor tanning community has successfully fought off Teenage “Tan Ban” proposals in three states this winter, with under-18 ban proposals in New Hampshire, Washington and South Dakota all going down in the past few weeks.…

A majority of indoor tanning facilities say their client base is getting older, a SmartTan.com survey conducted in February revealed. According to the survey, 58 percent of salons believe the average age of their tanning clients increased in the past …

A tanning industry veteran in Omaha was published in the Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday, responding to a dermatology-inspired anti-tan article in the same newspaper just a week ago, Tracie Cunningham, executive vice president of Ashley Lynn’s Tanning, an Omaha-based chain, …

A pro-sunlight column written by a financial services writer earlier this year keeps popping up in new publications.…

“Telling people to wear chemical sunscreen on a cloudy day is misbranding a product whose only approved use is to prevent sunburn. Yet the cosmetic dermatology industry — whose advocacy groups accept millions of dollars directly from the manufacturers of …

A majority of indoor tanning businesses say they expect their tanning client traffic to be up in 2010 as compared to 2009, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted in early February.…

A major dermatology industry trade journal admitted this month that dermatologists were behind the federal “Tan Tax” as a way to get congress to drop a proposed tax on their cosmetic surgery procedures — the so-called “Bo-Tax” which would have …