Why Can't you people out there learn to avoid damaging your skin?!

Why Can't you people out there learn to avoid damaging your skin?

I am spending five points to make this statement, and I will never again address sunburn!! Due to increases in greenhouse gasses, the radiation we recieve from the sun is magnified, much like a magnifying glass will condense the sun's rays to the point of starting a fire. People who never in the past burned are burning now. USE SUNSCREEN, limit the time you spend in the sun. Deaths from skin cancers called Melanoma are at an all time high and are climbing. The damage you do to your skin in your youth, will result in cancer when you are an adult. Protect your children, protect yourselves or pay the bloody fatal consequences!!!!!

4 weeks ago
thank you for the information you've added to my little rant.
For those who use a tanning bed, YES, they too can cause skin cancer.

4 weeks ago
rockford if what you said were true then people who snow ski would never get sunburned, but they do. It is NOT the heat, it IS the radiation, both gamma and beta radiation.

I recently met a nice little old lady that I see on my bus ride home from work on some days. She told me that she has always lived by the beach.

Her legs are discolored and has open sores. She told me they look like that because she has melanoma.

I tell people that I know as much as possible to be careful out there because skin cancer doesn't happen to just older people and white skinned people.

Many people don't know that Bob Marley died from it at age 36 because he had a mole between his toes and it went undetected until it was too late.

Another thing and then I'll stop. Some people are allergic to sunblock. My oldest son was badly sunburned as a toddler because I gave my mother Waterbabies by Coppertone to her to use on him when he went to Florida with her. He looked like a little lobster when he came home to MA. He will always have to be careful in the sun. He is 23 now and loves to get a tan and I remind him and warn him to not stay out in the hot sun.

There are sun umbrellas, hats and clothing that have sunblock treated in them.

People comment on me wearing a hat all of the time. Any kind of sun can be damaging because of the hole in the ozone.

Think of it as a gigantic magnifying glass that the sun is shining through.