Combs, feels parents should know better than to allow their children to use tanning beds. Whereas being a republican, Combs should know better than to force more government intrusion and regulation on the citizens.
Will coffee be next?
From the Akron Beacon Journal --
If only someone could sponsor legislation banning idiots, maybe we would be OK!Teenagers would be banned from using commercial tanning beds without a doctor's permission under an Ohio legislative proposal that resembles others simmering across the country.
At least 25 other states and four counties now similarly regulate the use of tanning facilities by minors, according to the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures.
The Ohio bill would prohibit anyone younger than 18 from using a commercial tanning bed without a doctor's prescription for ultraviolet radiation treatments.
"I don't believe parents are educated to the fact of how dangerous these tanning rays can be to a young child," said Rep. Courtney Combs, a Hamilton Republican who sponsored the proposal. "Surely to God, if you knew that, you wouldn't allow your child to go into a tanning bed." More....
I have a daughter w/ stage VI melanoma. She went tanning often as a young 20 something in college. She is now fighting for her life and the doctors believe it was from tanning beds. so I'm really scared. They are not a safe thing to do so don't kid yourself! there may be some use for them medically but what % of people using them have a doctors order? Vanity is the main reason.
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