These sessions of exposure to UV rays are usually performed in specialized centers that provide customers tanning booths for aesthetic purposes, but not always warn users of the risks involved in such practice.

Meanwhile the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, in a recent publication by the journal Lancet Oncology, found that the use of tanning parlors may increase the risk of developing cancer by 75 percent, saying they were more dangerous than previously thought, particularly in children and youth.

The IARC report came after scientists from nine countries met in June to reassess the risks of cancer that generate different types of radiation. WHO has established that it recommends the use of tanning booths for cosmetic purposes.

Today tanning beds are manufactured with higher levels of UVB to mimic the sun and accelerate the tanning process, which represents an increased risk of cancer.

Some European Union countries and U.S. states regulate the practice, sometimes even coming to prohibit use of these devices to adolescents or require the consent of parents or physician. In some places it is ordered, indicating the danger implied by this exposure to health.

Despite threatening to health, tanning beds are still used as the most sensible in such cases would reduce the number of exposures and use the goods bronzing skin hydrated and protected, as must be done with sun exposure.