Reasons People Ignore Tanning Dangers

There have been many teenagers and young adults who know the health risks of tanning, but some people still dare to do it. A new study also shows why. According to people who do the tanning, the health risks that are everywhere around them so that the use of tanning beds (a tool to darken the skin) is not considered a particular danger.


Researchers surveyed 600 students and found that respondents who claimed to never use a tanning bed, 59 percent of them agreed with the statement, "The use of tanning beds can make me sick, but at present everything can cause cancer."But 52 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, "The use of tanning beds is no more risky than anything else other people are doing.


"This way of thinking that there are many kinds of dangers around you and therefore can not be avoided is a common way to justify the risk behaviors of the person concerned," said researcher Smita Banerjee,


 a behavioral scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City as reported from MyHealthNewsDaily.
"Of course, the weakness of such thinking is the assumption that all hazards pose the same threat or danger."In contrast, fewer respondents who agreed with the statement that expresses doubt about the medical evidence that links between the use of tanning beds with a particular disease or as well as the belief that the use of tanning beds is beneficial even if there is danger behind it.Only 10 percent of respondents who claimed to agree with the statement, "The use of tanning beds are not only bad for you because many people who use tanning beds are in fact living longer," while 12 percent of respondents agreed that "More important for me to get a tanned skin at this age rather than worrying about skin cancer. "The health professionals were admitted concern with rationalization of risky behavior that made the average young adult. Therefore, after knowing it is expected to "... the professionals make numerous campaigns to sensitize and provide a stronger deterrent effect," suggests Banerjee.For example, physicians may respond to a patient who thinks that "all things" may cause cancer by explaining how to prioritize their health risks. This is because such rationalization is a very fundamental human character and it's based on the individual's inability to distinguish between risk and danger around him, he added.But the researchers stressed that the study published in the journal Archives of Dermatology is finite and relatively small in scope and thus may not apply to all younger age groups.