13 Facts About Indoor tanning

Indoor tanning involves using a device that emits ultraviolet radiation to produce a cosmetic tan.

Typically found in Indoor tanning salons, gyms, spas, hotels, and sporting facilities, and less often in private residences, the most common device is a horizontal Indoor tanning bed, known as a sunbed or solarium.

The commercial use of Indoor tanning beds was banned entirely in Brazil in 2009 and Australia in 2015.

Indoor tanning is a source of UV radiation, which is known to cause skin cancer, including melanoma and skin aging, and is associated with sunburn, photodrug reactions, infections, weakening of the immune system, and damage to the eyes, including cataracts, photokeratitis and eye cancer.

Indoor tanning won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work.

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Home-Indoor tanning equipment was introduced in the 1920s in the form of "sunlamps" or "health lamps", UV lamps that emitted a large percentage of UVB, leading to burns.

The world's first Indoor tanning salon opened in 1977 in Berlin, followed by Indoor tanning salons in Europe and North America in the late 1970s.

Attitudes toward Indoor tanning vary across states; in one study, doctors in the northeast and midwest of the country were more likely than those in the south or west to recommend Indoor tanning beds to treat vitamin D deficiency and depression.

Reasons cited for indoor tanning include improving appearance, acquiring a pre-holiday tan, feeling good and treating a skin condition.

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation, whether from the sun or Indoor tanning devices is known to be a major cause of the three main types of skin cancer: non-melanoma skin cancer and melanoma.

Children and adolescents who use Indoor tanning beds are at greater risk because of biological vulnerability to UV radiation.

Commercial Indoor tanning services are banned in all states, except the Northern Territory where no salons are in operation.

Indoor tanning is prohibited for under-18s in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island; and for under-19s in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Northwest Territories.