Jean Guerrero: I was a teen tanning addict. Now I worry about people fooled by anti-sunscreen TikTokers
Like too many California millennials, I developed a tanning addiction in my teens. In defiance of my mother, a Puerto Rican physician by way of the National Health Service Corps, I fried my skin throughout my adolescence: in the backyard, on the beach and in the local tanning salon, which charged me $30 a month for the unlimited privilege of exposing my young body to a tube-filled carcinogenic ...
by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times
Sep 12, 2023
3 minutes
Like too many California millennials, I developed a tanning addiction in my teens.
In defiance of my mother, a Puerto Rican physician by way of the National Health Service Corps, I fried my skin throughout my adolescence: in the backyard, on the beach and in the local tanning salon, which charged me $30 a month for the unlimited privilege of exposing my young body to a tube-filled carcinogenic chamber prior to California's ban on tanning bed use by minors. I repeatedly rolled my eyes at my mother's warnings.
I remember thinking: I guess
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