Welcome  to  Public  health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. If  you  frequent  an  indoor  tanning  salon, listen  up  your  risk  of  getting  melanoma. A  deadly  form  of  skin  cancer  is 75%  greater  than  for  people  who  don't  tan  indoors. In  addition,  the  more  time  that people  spend  at  tanning  salons, the  greater  their  risk  of  acquiring  melanoma. These  are  the  results  from  a  case  control  research  study involving  more  than  2,200  people. Dian  Lazovic,  a  cancer epidemiologist  at the  University  of  Minnesota,  led  the  study. But  we  looked  at  a  dose  response  which  is  basically how  much  people  tan  and  how that  is  related  to  the  risk  of  melanoma. And  in  the  highest  categories  of  use, more  than  50  h,  more  than  100  sessions, or  more  than  ten  years, individuals  who  fell  into those  categories  were  anywhere  from  2.5  to  three times  more  likely  to  develop  melanoma than  those  who  did  not  tan  indoors. The  bottom  line,  Lazovic  says, stay  away  from  indoor  tanning  salons. Indoor  tanning  is  not  safe. Our  results  would  suggest  that  it doesn't  matter  whether  ultra  violet  radiation  comes from  the  sun  or  whether  it  comes from  artificial  devices  like  indoor  tanning, that  the  risk  is  still  the  same  for  developing  melanoma. And  therefore  exposure  to indoor  tanning  should  be  avoided  just  like  exposure  to sun  to  reduce  the  risk  of  melanoma  for public  health  moment  and John  Finnegan,  I'm  marking  grits.