From the article: The Health Care Reform Tan Tax
The approved Health Care Reform Bill includes a 10 percent tax on salon tanning. What are your thoughts about the tax? Do you think it will deter rising skin cancer rates? If you are a tanner, will it stop you from tanning? We want to know your thoughts about the Health Care Reform Tan Tax! Share Your Thoughts
Tan Salon Tax
- I think people need to really know the facts about tanning instead of listening to all of the media hype. Go to TanningTruth.com - it is written by a doctor. Burning is what contributes to skin cancer and it is usually from your childhood burns. Tanning has many health benefits when done properly!! It is proven that most people lack Vitamin D and the main source is sunshine, whether that be the sun or a tanning bed. Personally, I have known many more people who have had botched cosmetic surgery than skin cancer.
- —Guest Gail
Fighting chemo fatigue
- This is the worst side effect of undergoing chemotherapy. Most days, I can barely function. I lay in my couch most of the time. I am always cold, have gone from 157lbs. to 102-104lbs. I cannot eat full meals. I "nibble" during the day. I am grateful for my Ensure to keep me from getting anemic. This chemo is hell. I have multiple myeloma. Came out of the blue. No one in my family has cancer. This has been a shocker.
- —Susiegal
tan salon tax
- Yay! It's about time. Why not tax this major cause of skin cancer, just as we tax cigarettes, which cause more than 80% of lung cancer? Perhaps this will discourage some users, which would be all for the good. -- Leonore H. Dvorkin, author of ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIFE: A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR'S JOURNEY (Norilana Books, 2009)
- —LeonoreDvorkin
