{"id":17114,"date":"2015-09-08T08:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T12:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=17114"},"modified":"2015-09-08T08:28:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T12:28:26","slug":"the-asa-lawsuit-salons-sue-anti-tanning-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/the-asa-lawsuit-salons-sue-anti-tanning-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The ASA Lawsuit: Salons sue anti-tanning group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is it okay for a non-profit cancer education and prevention charity to develop a sun care campaign saying, essentially, that tanning is as harmful as smoking cigarettes, even if the facts suggest otherwise? Is it okay to fill that campaign with more than a dozen other statements that have been refuted by conflicting or confounding information without referencing the confounding material? Is it okay if their presentation of the facts isn&#8217;t balanced if they believe their cause is correct?<\/p>\n<p>Boil it down, and that&#8217;s what 68 percent of the tanning salons in Nebraska&#8217;s largest tanning markets, Omaha and Lincoln, have asked a court to decide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smarttan.epubxp.com\/i\/558611-vol30-iss9-2015\/37\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire article in the latest issue of Smart Tan Magazine online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is it okay for a non-profit cancer education and prevention charity to develop a sun care campaign saying, essentially, that tanning is as harmful as smoking cigarettes, even if the facts suggest otherwise? Is it okay to fill that campaign with more than a dozen other statements that have been refuted by conflicting or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The ASA Lawsuit: Salons sue anti-tanning group - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Question: Is it okay for a non-profit cancer education and prevention charity to develop a sun care campaign saying, essentially, that tanning is as harmful as smoking cigarettes, even if the facts suggest otherwise? 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