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In video after video on TikTok, many with over 100,000 likes, young women in bikinis seek out UV indexes of 6 and above for tanning. The problem is that the UV index wasn’t invented for peak tanning, but rather to tell us when not to go into the sun.

What to know about teens, tanning and the UV index
What to know about teens, tanning and the UV index

In videos dating back to at least 2022, many with over 100,000 likes, young women in bikinis seek out UV indexes of 6 and above for tanning.

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HMappa69.bsky.social

Survival of the fittest? Or smartest, maybe? Enjoy melanoma, ladies.

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LZlynniez.bsky.social

After 2 melanomas and 18 biopsies, I wish I could turn the clock back 60 years and warn my young self about the dangers of achieving the perfect tan. We didn’t know then what we know now about sun damage to the skin. It’s not fun at all.

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Kkartographde.bsky.social

Humanity deserves hard to die out.

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Ddownpuppy.bsky.social

Leather is always in fashion.

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DVdantevortex.bsky.social

You will eat the bugs, you will live in the pod, and you will not leave the pod.... for your own good of course. But yes, skin cancer is real, sunscreen is real too.

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