Brazilians were forbidden to visit solariums: too harmful

The Brazilian authorities declared war on the "artificial sun." According to Chaskor.ru , solariums were banned in the country.

The National Agency of Brazil on Health did this, listening to the recommendations of the World Health Organization. WHO constantly indicates the relationship of frequent use of solariums and cancer and even attributed the solarium to the factors of the highest risk of oncological diseases.

As a result, in Brazil, import, sale, purchase and rental of equipment for creating artificial tanning was also banned.

According to the head of the National Agency for Health of Dirso Barbano, the authorities were forced to take this step: "We cannot leave equipment on the market, the connection of which is considered proven with the development of cancer."

As previously reported, the International Agency for the Study of Cancer (International For Research On Cancer) established that the adoption of artificial sunbathing is one of the main causes of cancer. As the IARC study showed, solariums for young people are especially dangerous. The risk of skin melanoma under the age of 30 years when using artificial tanning devices increases by 75% , scientists say. In addition, a visit to a solarium can lead to a rare type of eye cancer - eye melanoma.

The British Ministry of Health, having familiarized himself with the data of the study, said that it intends to reconsider its position in relation to the use of solariums for cosmetic purposes.

And in Iran, the Ministry of Health has already banned the tan's cabs.

As you know, tens of millions of people around the world, including in Russia, use solariums. Solariums are more popular in Northern Europe and the USA than in other regions. According to a survey conducted in 2008, about 14 million Germans aged 18 to 45 resort to the services of solariums, a quarter of them under 17 years old.

Earlier studies show that about a quarter of the adult population of European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany and Sweden, used solariums at least once in their life.