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It happened again in late July. The purveyors of \u2018Sun Scare\u2019 spread a story about indoor tanning that put the tanning community on defense, having to explain why the story wasn\u2019t true and arguing the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tt-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punching First! - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Instead of merely defending tanning from unfair attacks, Smart Tan organizes an offense-oriented assault on Sun Scare\u2019s deadly message. It happened again in late July. 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