A Saint John dermatologist is speaking out about what he says is the danger of using tanning beds. Dr. Douglas Keeling tells CHSJ News its not only him who's saying this. The World Health Organisation has tanning beds in the same high risk category as plutonium, asbestos, arsenic and even mustard gas. He says tanning beds deliver the same amount of ultraviolent radiation in five minutes what the sun does, at the equator, in half an hour and he has seen the presence of venereal warts in people who have used them.
Dr. Keeling will be talking about the dangers of tanning at a public meeting being staged by the Cancer Society at the Lily Lake Pavilion starting at 7:00 Wednesday night.
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