{"id":475838,"date":"2010-03-26T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003771"},"modified":"2010-03-26T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:32:24","slug":"poll-should-tanning-beds-require-parental-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475838","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Should Tanning Beds Require Parental Consent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/tanningbed-thumb-240x160-38625.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a Food &#038; Drug Administration advisory panel suggested that the FDA begin making it a requirement for children and teenagers who want to get a golden glow from a tanning bed that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/skin-beauty\/news\/20100325\/fda-panel_restrict_tanning_beds\" >must first obtain parental consent<\/a> on a form documenting that the parents are aware of the potential hazards of tanning. Since I get my sun the natural way &#8212; from the backlit screen of my laptop &#8212; I&#8217;d like to know from y&#8217;all whether you think this is a sensible idea that will help prevent skin disease and cancer in the long run or if it&#8217;s just more mandated mollycoddling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2959242.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2959242\/\">Should parents have to sign a consent form for their kids to use tanning beds?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">opinion<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a Food &#038; Drug Administration advisory panel suggested that the FDA begin making it a requirement for children and teenagers who want to get a golden glow from a tanning bed that they must first obtain parental consent on a form documenting that the parents are aware of the potential hazards of tanning. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}