Safe Tanning Now Available Through Your Computer Screen!

Wednesday, 01 April 2009

Safe Tanning Now Available Through Your Computer Screen!
Thanks to a new British website, people can now tan from their office cubicles!
With the new hightech electrical-to-UV ray conversion, the lights from your computer screen are now able to tan you while you play Solitare, make a spread sheet, or handle conference calls.

Okay, not really.
ComputerTan.com is a website sponsored by the Karen Clifford Skin Cancer Charity (Skcin), with the hopes that this brutally honest spoof website will help sun-hungry people understand just how severely damaging UV-rays can be.
After trying to obtain my own five minute free trial, I can only hope that their message reaches more people.
Check out the website to see exactly what I'm talking about (Click here to start your "free trial" - no downloading necessary.)
Do you think you practice safe sunbathing? Should more advertisements like this be made to make people aware of the consequences of their unhealthy habits (ie: smoking, tanning, drinking, etc...)?

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This scares me...
- 4/1/2009 3:42 PM
- eternal_relevance@xanga (message)
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Thats cool. Really.
I practice safe sun habits every single day. Just because there are better treatments from skin cancer, doesnt make it any better.
- 4/1/2009 3:47 PM
- peacelove__CALLIE@xanga (message)
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that's awesome.
- 4/1/2009 3:58 PM
- AnchorsAwayx@xanga (message)
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tanning = cancer
- 4/1/2009 4:38 PM
- xRunningtheracex@xanga (message)
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............
- 4/1/2009 5:52 PM
- TakingxOverxMe@xanga (message)
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I never go to a tanning salon anymore, even though I get really pasty in the winter. My best friend goes once a day and she's going to age really quickly.

I also don't want cancer or wrinkles! I'll put on self-tanner once in awhile or get a spray-tan. I wear sunblock a lot
- 4/1/2009 5:54 PM
- danielle_thexdino@xanga (message)
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Wtf I could have used a warning!! Gross nasty images on that site.
- 4/1/2009 6:17 PM
- PixelDOT@xanga (message)
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hahaa clever
- 4/1/2009 7:01 PM
- black_lie@xanga (message)
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haha welcome to the future!
- 4/1/2009 8:24 PM
- SoHoian_NightOwl@xanga (message)
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whoa at first I was going to say WHAT?? that's cancer in your FACE!! there's no way UV rays can come out of your monitors! all these WoW-heads would be tanned by now.

then I finished reading and realized it's a site the offers information about the dangers of it.
- 4/1/2009 10:34 PM
- krispylicious@xanga (message)
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I'm all for the self-tanners and products like Jergen's Natural Glow (or whatever it's called). I used to go to tanning beds all the time until I found a weird shaped mole. It's small and I had it checked out and it was not anything to be concerned with, but it freaked me out enough to where I have quit tanning in beds and now use sunscreen when I bathe in natural sunlight. I think it's been 3 years since I last laid in a tanning bed lol, mystic spray tans are where it's at lol
- 4/1/2009 11:54 PM
- TheScaleDiaries@xanga (message)
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i love this!!! i am passing it on to my friends. i am a self-tanning junkie!
- 4/2/2009 12:02 AM
- XoxMRS_SOSxoX@xanga (message)
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Sunbathing isn't healthy on a regular basis, what so ever. The only "safe" thing when it comes to the sun is using something with a minimum of SPF 15, even in your chapstick.

I have a friend who is only 25 and has already had a pre-cancerous mole removed. If you love your body, you'll take care of it.
Its the one thing I'm kind of crazy about >.<
- 4/2/2009 12:38 AM
- The_Tudor_Rose@xanga (message)
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that was awesome and yes, they should have more ads like that.
- 4/2/2009 12:58 AM
- Erika_Steele@xanga (message)
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I don't tan. My skin is going to be a normal color. Normal meaning: If i'm out in the sun and I get a little darker, great; but I'm not going to force it.
Living longer vs. having to renew my skin color while raising the risks of cancer.
Hmm, not a tough call.
- 4/2/2009 1:00 AM
- pillowpixies@xanga (message)
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thanks!
- 4/2/2009 1:10 AM
- J4MIE_YUN@xanga (message)
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I think tanning in a tanning bed or out in the sun is relaxing and I go once in awhile. However, I mainly stick with the self-tanners or the gradual tanners like Jergen's or Dove. I guess you could say that I'm a self-tanning junkie. I like the feeling of having some "color".
- 4/2/2009 12:51 PM
- fiery_redhead@datingish (message)
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@The_Tudor_Rose@xanga - I love that you point out that SPF is important for your lips, too! I've been using SPF chapsticks since my teen years. I actually have pictures of me from a family trip to Puerto Rico where my face is tan and my lips have a white ring around them from using too much SPF chapstick! So funny!

@fiery_redhead@datingish - - I've actually heard that having low-doses of UV-rays from a tanning bed is OK, especially for special beds that prevent burning and promote a healthy tan. However, make sure you're not allowing yourself to bake in the bed for too long - you get a crazy amount of extra rays in any salon than you would on a normal day spent outdoors.
- 4/2/2009 5:04 PM
- msenergydrink (message)
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yeah good idea to advertise the truth.
- 1/19/2010 1:12 AM
- mynotebooks@xanga (message)
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I have pretty bad eczema and tanning is the only treatment I've found that makes a significant difference. In fact, it almost completely cures my eczema. If I didn't tan my skin would be covered in little awful dry skin bumps and raw red patches that crack and bleed. I only tan like once every 2 weeks or maybe every week and a half at most. I do think tanning more than once a week is bad, but I think it's pretty dumb that people also try and make it sound like tanning at all is gonna make you drop dead from cancer. Moderation is always the key.
- 2/7/2010 10:43 PM
- SkyFlyChick@xanga (message)
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Tanning is awfull... i on the other hand want to be whiter.
- 2/8/2010 6:39 AM
- panda_cupcake@xanga (message)
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