“This is step one in the process of making sure that we protect teenagers,” says Dr. Suzanne McGoey, past president of the Wisconsin Dermatological Society and one of the advocates behind the bill. Originally, in 2022, she and her colleagues had proposed an all-out ban of minors using tanning beds but “when we talked to our local politicians, the appetite for an outright ban really wasn’t there,” she says. This bipartisan compromise, she adds, was “to limit the risks associated with young people and tanning and make sure that parents are at least aware and involved in their children’s health care decisions. Because going to a tanning bed is a health care decision.”
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