SAVE YOUR HIDE-SKIP THE TANNING BOOTH
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25378496/ns/health-health_care/
This article discusses how tanning, whether in the tanning booth or in the natural sun is actually very bad for your skin and health. The media has shaped tanning to become the new "fashion trend". In actuality, the human skin becomes darker in order to protect itself from the harmful rays. Soon, skin basically can burn like charcoal. Yet because of this "fashion trend", the number one cancer which kills many lives is skin cancer-from tanning!
QUESTION: If people know that tanning in general cause cancer, why do they willingly risk their lives? Also, does this mean that people care more about their image then actual health?
I think the media, influences people to look like a certain way that whether is good or bad people want to look a certain way and dont realize the consequence as time goes
ReplyDeleteI think people willingly risk their lives because they do care about their image than their health. They probably don't believe that it would actually cause cancer so they do it anyways. I agree with Aerielle that the media does influence society and creates this image that all people should look like.
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