What about it caught your eye?
I am back in Sarasota. This caught my eye while waiting for the stoplight to change. ... Say, what a great idea: Take the dog in for dental work, then lie in the tanning booth, then get my hair done, then get a nice triple scoop ice cream cone, and then pick up the dog.
The chick.Rob
I noticed the animal hospital advertised it treated "birds." And as Rob C. commented, 'The Chick.' I made a connection between the chick and the word "bird" while waiting for the stoplight to change. ... I think it's strange to see a sun-faded picture of a woman in an ad for a tanning and spa salon.
We did a study on skin cancer in Iceland, about 7 years ago. As you can imagine, opportunities for naturally occurring sunburn in Iceland are limited: but there was a period where tanning salons became very popular: exploded from zero to around 30 or 40 I think, before the government started applying standards of behaviour (no tanning kids, for eg). A few years later, most were gone.Some years later, you could see almost the same explosion and decline in melanoma rates, particularly in youngish women.https://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/172/7/762.shortThe sunbed industry claimed they were reducing other cancers by increasing vitamin D levels, based on the fact that some cancers have a north-south gradient in the US... but when you look in Europe, the gradient runs in the opposite direction!
Yep, UV drops off rapidly towards the poles (as does the inclination to get naked, of course). A little-reported fact was that when there was the ozone hole over southern Australia, the exposure in Melbourne (under the hole) was still lower than in Sydney (not under the hole but further north).Normally nature compensates with natural selection... but the reason Australia is the world skin cancer champion is we brought migrants from Scotland and Ireland and sent them out to work in cane-fields in North Queensland. Hanging out on beaches in India is a bit similar, but more enjoyable
Fortunately, down here, the messages are clear and constant about sun protection and it has been and continues to change behaviour in a positive way.
Yep, big shock on movng to France to hear/see advertising making a big deal of having a tan (they were selling holidays in Greece, as it happens). I see much darker tans on white skinned people here that I can ever remember in Sydney or Melbourne.