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Youth Access Laws
In the Dark at the Tanning Parlor?
Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD;
Eva R. Parker, MD;
Nancy Cersonsky, MD;
Eric J. Hester, MD;
Bragg Hemme, JD;
Diane L. Burkhardt, JD;
Alan K. Chen, JD;
Lisa M. Schilling, MD
Arch Dermatol. 2003;139:443-448.
Objective To compare laws governing youth access to UV irradiation at indoor tanning facilities with laws governing youth access to tobacco.
Design Tobacco and UV irradiation youth access laws were assessed via correspondence with public health offices and computerized legal searches of 6 industrialized nations with widely differing skin cancer incidence rates.
Setting National, provincial, and state legal systems in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Participants Public health, legal, information science, and medical professionals and government and tanning industry representatives.
Main Outcome Measures Statutes specifying age restrictions for the purchase of indoor tanning services or tobacco products.
Results The 5 English-speaking countries with common law–based legal systems unilaterally prohibit youth access to tobacco but rarely limit youth access to UV irradiation from tanning salons. Only very limited regions in the United States and Canada prohibit youth access to indoor tanning facilities: Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, and New Brunswick prohibit tanning salon use by minors younger than 13, 14, 16, and 18 years, respectively. In contrast, French law allows minors to purchase tobacco but prohibits those younger than 18 years from patronizing tanning salons.
Conclusions Youth access laws governing indoor tanning display remarkable variety. Uniform indoor tanning youth access laws modeled on the example of tobacco youth access laws merit consideration.
From the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Dr Dellavalle), Departments of Dermatology (Drs Dellavalle, Parker, Cersonsky, and Hester), Preventive Medicine and Biometrics (Dr Dellavalle), and Medicine (Dr Schilling), University of Colorado School of Medicine, and University of Denver College of Law (Mss Hemme and Burkhardt and Mr Chen), Denver, Colo. The authors have no relevant financial interest in this article.
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