Daily Record View: Dying for a tan.KIDS grow up quick these days - but that is very different from ageing before your time. Hayley Barlow bar·low n. An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife. [After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.] looks 25 - even though she is just 14. She isn't ill or just mature beyond her years. Her skin has been permanently damaged by using a sunbed sun·bed n. See tanning bed. sunbed n → cama solar sunbed sun n → lit pliant; (with sun lamp up to five times a week. She might like the look now but she won't when she actually is 25. She'll be wrinkled, haggard and will look like someone 20 years older. That is if she lives that long. Doctors believe she is a certainty to get skin cancer if she keeps on using the sunbeds she is addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. to. We all want to look our best. A tan makes us feel good. But when vanity starts to damage your health, it is time to quit. And when kids need a tan to feel healthy, something is deeply wrong |
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