The Opposition Liberals want the use of tanning beds in the province by those young people under 19 banned.
Liberal Health critic Donald Arsenault points to research from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It shows the risk of skin cancer increases by 75 per cent when tanning bed use begins before age 35.
The Liberals will be tabling a bill aimed at banning the practice but even Arsenault, a former Deputy Premier, concedes opposition bills are rarely made law. That’s why he’s calling on Health Minister Ted Flemming to take the bull by the horns.
Arsenault says a ban could also save scarce health care dollars as well as lives down the road.
