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• n  process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
• n  beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
• n  making leather from rawhide
• v  treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
• v  get a tan, from wind or sun

• Avoid wearing shiny jewelry that might simulate the scales of a prey fish, and also avoid uneven tanning and contrasting, bright-colored clothing.
• If you watched Erin Brockovich, then you know what hexavalent chromium is: a nasty heavy metal used for stainless steel production and leather tanning that is carcinogenic if .
• Kylie-Ayn Kennedy, 16, likes to get to the tanning parlor first thing in the morning.

• whipping
• flogging
• lashing
• flagellation
• tan
• bronze

News & Articles

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• Police: 15-year-old accused of taking photos of woman at tanning salon
  Wanda Ballard is angry at the teen accused of taking pictures of her at a tanning salon. "How could you do that? Why would you do that," Ballard said. She had gone to Shades of Summer in downtown Gastonia for five years. As she finished tanning with no clothes, Tuesday, she said she noticed a cellphone held over the wall around the tanning bed. "I am very upset," Ballard said. "I feel violated ...
  June 11, 2013 - WSOC-TV Charlotte
• Tanning Tax Here to Stay Thanks to the Affordable Care Act
  Indoor Tanning Association says tanning tax is killing business.
  June 10, 2013 - US News & World Report
• What Obamacare's Tanning Tax Means for Tan Mom — and Billions of You
  The Hill reports that a once-controversial provision of the Affordable Care Act that adds a ten percent tax to indoor tanning sessions will soon become permanent. That's good news for Obamacare, which will garner an estimate $2.7 billion in annual revenue from the move. And it's bad news for people who don't want to pay slightly more for a tanning session.
  June 10, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Pete Wentz in MTV News
  We got some blow-up palm trees,Wentz told Seacrest. "A little fake-n-bake tanning booth. We're eating DiGiorno's pizza, getting in that tanning oven every once in a while - it's great. It's gonna look like we're on that private jet. We're...
• Michael Prue in CTV.ca
  As a person who has had basal cell carcinoma and has had it zapped it from my chest from too much sun, I appreciate very much that those tanning beds should not be there for people under 18,Prue said.
• Sean Avery in USA Today
  I've got to get my tan back. I was in the hospital for a week. They don't have tanning beds there,Avery said. "I feel better every day. It's not going to take long. They said it's only going to take a couple of weeks. They said I can't get...