Sunbeds to be banned in Ireland!

rororoyourboat

Like others have said, so so so many things cause cancer. Cigarettes and alcohol for example. Why not ban them? Because the government makes too much money from them. Cancer is indeed such a tradgedy and I hope I'm not offending anyone with this post but...

I really don't know why they are targeting sun beds in particular. Education and stricter licencing would work better, in my (very humble!) opinion. Maybe the government could tax them or something, sure wouldn't they only love to take more money from us? :pac:

If they were banned, something else would just replace them - I've heard of people injecting stuff into their skin to make them more tanned :eek:

renraw

I used to work for a "particluar" company that had sunbeds all round the country and I have to say, its about time they did ban the things. They are highly addictive and do irreparable damage to the skin and if goggles are not worn to cover eyes, retinal damage is highly possible. Banning them is a great idea.

Red Alert

It's not so much the larger operators I worry about - it's the unsupervised coin-operated units like in the gym that are an accident waiting to happen.

There are also an awful lot of dodgy machines operated by dodgy operators down the country, particularly in the back of hairdressing salons. Many of these have non-existent maintenance, poor staff training and don't have any electronic means of enforcing maximum exposure times.

In short, they should ban them all! One option might be to refit some of them with neon tubes, like this thing called Rejuvasun I saw. There's no UV, just relaxing deep heat.

28064212

By far the most sensible solution is much stricter regulation (no under-18s for a start) and taxes (on a per-use system). It's very hard to justify banning them without banning a host of other things, but children should be protected and people using them should be contributing to the health-care system, same as smokers and drinkers

maggy_thatcher

28064212 wrote: »

By far the most sensible solution is much stricter regulation (no under-18s for a start) and taxes (on a per-use system). It's very hard to justify banning them without banning a host of other things, but children should be protected and people using them should be contributing to the health-care system, same as smokers and drinkers

It's the responsibility of the child's parents to do the protection, not everybody else. I think it's about time we stopped expecting the government to act as the universal babysitter, and re-introduce personal (and familial) responsibility!