Beacon Hill Wants To Protect Teens From Fake Bake
Lawmakers on Beacon Hill want to limit how much teenagers can use tanning booths.
Tanning booths are the latest area where teenagers need to be protected from themselves, according to lawmakers and health officials pushing legislation they say will reduce the number of new skin cancer cases.
New harsher penalties went into effect this weekend for teenage drivers who speed or drag race on public roads. Now, some on Beacon Hill want to prevent teens from recklessly exposing themselves to ultraviolet rays at an age in their lives when they can be most harmful.
The legislators are slated to testify at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would prohibit youths under 16 years old from using tanning booths and would require parental consent for 16- and 17-year-olds who want an indoor tan.
”Let’s not make it so easy for young people to expose their skin to dangerous rays,” said Sen. Pamela Resor, one of the bill’s sponsors.
Why does Beacon Hill feel the need to be pseudo-parents to the children of the Commonwealth? Why can’t they depend on mom and dad instead of senator and representative to inform kids of the risks involved with excessive use of tanning booths? Since when did tanning booths become the new tobacco?
Sorry, but no more Big Brother on Beacon Hill. Legislation doesn’t take the place of parenting.
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Aaron Margolis is a life long resident of the Bay State, and works at an architectural firm north of Boston. Aaron has a Master of Architecture Degree from Boston Architectural College and is currently in the process of becoming of a Registered Architect.
I am so sick and tired of the “I know better then you” police here in Massachusetts. These people spend more time crusading against nonsense then they do solving real problems. How do these people continue to win, has this state been taken over by every crazy looney lefty in the world. This isn’t a problem for the Kennedy School of Communism and the Tufts School of Trustfund Suburbanite’s Social policy to solve. This is a problem that parents need to solve, its called taking responsibility for your stupid kids actions and telling them what they can and can’t do. I am sick and tired of my elected officials wasting my time and my money on nonsene.