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Picture of the week: Tanned out

The perils of the tanning bed

 

We thank the extraordinarily colourful character and well-known florist Orlando Hamilton for this week’s picture of the week.

 

A tan too far

 

Goodness knows where he found it, but readers you might need your sunglasses to look at this one. In it, a lager swilling woman provides illustration as to why sunbeds should indeed be avoided. This bleach blonde haired creature further highlights the perils of her ‘look’ with a dress and matching nails that would better suit Katie Price or a member of the cast of The Only Way is Essex.

 

Did this woman look in the mirror before heading out? We guess not but on a more serious note, she ought to look into the health dangers of over-tanning. A 2009 study by cancer experts for MSNBC found that “tanning beds [were] as dangerous as arsenic and mustard gas” and that “people who used tanning beds before their 30th birthday had a 75 percent higher risk of developing skin cancer”.

 

The lesson here is simple. If you don’t want to die, turn off the tanning bed.

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