Effect of Parental Permission and Age Restriction Laws on US Adolescent Indoor Tanning Trends

[...]as more states adopt laws prohibiting indoor tanning by minors, the full effect of this upper age restriction will become more apparent with time. Following the 2016 presidential election, the US Food and Drug Administration did not finalize the rules announced the previous year for instituting a national ban on indoor tanning among adolescents younger than 18 years. [...]the onus for protecting youths from this exposure has now fallen back to the 33 states that have yet to pass legislation to prohibit minors from tanning indoors. The authors estimated that 61 830 melanoma cases and 6735 melanoma deaths could be prevented in the United States if adolescents were prevented from tanning indoors as a result of the age 18 restriction laws. [...]an even greater reduction in the skin cancer burden would be possible if avoiding indoor tanning during adolescence led to lower likelihood of adopting the behavior in adulthood, similar to other risk behaviors like smoking.