Melanoma in Ten Sessions
News.com.au – Solarium skin cancer victim Clare Oliver dies
SKIN cancer victim Clare Oliver has lost her battle, dying in hospital this morning.
Ms Oliver, who turned 26 late last month, had campaigned in her final days to raise awareness of the dangers of tanning salons.
Ms Oliver who died of aggressive melanoma, captured Victorian hearts when she spoke out against tanning and solariums.
Her plight sparked the government to action with Health Minister Daniel Andrews promising to frame legislation to ensure that tanning salons adhered to age limits for clients and insisted on parental consent forms from customers aged between 16 and 18.
There’s a thought, regulated tanning beds. I’ve never gone near one except to glare menacingly at the one that opened up on Queen Anne Ave last year (such a nice location and that’s who moves in?) so I dunno how they work in this country. Are there little stickers on it telling you you’re going to die of cancer?
You’re not supposed to be able to get skin cancer till you’re in your mid-twenties, but when I was a freshman in high school there were rumours that a couple of the popular girls had already had bad moles removed from their backs. Those things are just awful. And they prey on young girls’ impressionable insecurities. Which is why cigarettes had to kill Joe Camel. Except this is worse because it “makes you pretty.”
September 13th, 2007 at 9:05 am
There’s a proposed bill before the Scottish Parliament to regulate tanning parlours. The problem is that some of them are self-service as it were and people go in after a few drinks and fry themselves. They’re also used to launder drug money, I’m told.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Eh, really? Are they coin-op?
People go in after a few drinks and coat their lungs with tar, and we tax the hell out of them and put warning labels all over the place for their pleasure. Don’t see why we can’t do that for tanning beds, too.
And how interesting is it that the Aussies call them solariums…
September 14th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Yes, isn’t it? Were they to use latin properly they’d call the plural solaria.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Which is why cigarettes had to kill Joe Camel. Except this is worse because it “makes you pretty.”
I makes the rant. I expect yawlz already know this, but skin tone has ever been an indicator of class.
Awhile back, a long time ago a normally white person lost a little love if they had a tan, it indicated they were out in the Sun all day, maybe working the cotton. Indicated a lack of leisure time, the prevue of the rich. Now it’s just the 180 difference. A rich dark tan indicates you haven’t had to sit in an office all day working for a living. So Viola! Tanning Parlors.
Me? I roll with fishing gear at all times. Indicating coolness
September 16th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
You know Coco Chanel was the one that got the tan thing started.
Me, I’m nice and pale. Where I’m not freckled. Mom used to tell me if I tried hard enough maybe all the freckles would just join up at last giving me the tan I’d always been deprived of, but most likely they’d just stack and I’d have little skyscrapers of freckles but still be just as white as ever.
Rich people tho aren’t stupid. They all get spray-on tans. Aussie rich people, the ones you’d think would have the best tans, have the best skin cuz they’re all so knowledgeable. Really the people with the weakest sun (Brits) have the worst tans (orange) and those with the strongest have the best (Naomi Watts).