TIL tanning salons have been banned in Australia since 2016.

www.abc.net.au 'It's criminal, it should be stopped': Melanoma survivor issues warning on illegal solariums

Melissa Sheldon's melanoma spread to her lungs and her brain, and her doctors said it was probably because of her sunbed use. Now she has issued a warning to others thinking of using one of Australia's illegal solariums - "stop".

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Using a sun bed in such an ordinarily hot country is hilarious to me, because it's so redundant.
- I have a vitamin D deficiency. I already take a calcium + vitamin D supplement, it’s the height of the British summer (lol) and my vitamin D levels are still too low. My doctors advice is to eat lunch outside every day. Which would be fine if it wasn’t 15C and raining! I could really do with a 30second sun bed treatment every other week.
  
  Similarly have seen sunbread suggestions as one way to try to treat eczema. Given a lot of eczema is caused by allergies to stuff in the air outside, just going outside can make it worse.
  
  Edit: "sunbread suggestions" should be 'sunbed suggested". Sunbread probably won't do anything for eczema.
  
  Is that available under prescription?
- My thinking exactly.
Just walking for ten minutes in the summer sun gets you sunburnt. What was she thinking.
Yeah skin cancer is bad. Also, why would you want your skin to look like leather when you get older
- Something about Mary?
  
  Have you seen my baseball?
Fun fact, the southern hemisphere summer occurs in perihelion (when the earth is closest to the sun) combined with Australia’s position mean we get about 15% more UV than the northern hemisphere apparently. https://theconversation.com/how-does-the-ozone-layer-protect-earth-from-radiation-9206

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