Caveat emptor - Let the fryer beware
- SUN MAGIC Tanning Spas lie in ads in Kitchener-Waterloo area Coupon Clipper.- Plus more detailed claims using California Tan misinformation in coupon book to raise money for Sunbeam Home, an Ontario government run facility for severely handicapped and profoundly retarded children.
- Homer Dick Travel and Tanning - Archive from 2002. An overwhelmingly bad idea, but someone had to do it. Does this guy know dick about melanoma?
- Indulgence Village - Waterloo
- Fabutan Tanning Tips
and Benefits - Canada's largest purveyor of black death reassures us
all that selling time in their suntan parlors is o.k. for franchise holder
and former executive of Tim Hortons, so it must be o.k. to invest money
with them. Their slogan is their best kept secret, ...
"You earn - they burn"
U.S. News & World Report and other major media critical reviews
- Indoor tanning salons take on their critics - September 8, 1997
- The sun has betrayed its worshipers. How to keep safe - June 24, 1996 plus other articles in same issue; cover story is The SUN
- Group Promotes Benefits of `Moderate' Sun Tan - New York Times - Feb. 1997
SUNTAN INDUSTRY BOOSTERS & PROPAGANDA RAGS
- IslandSunTimes.com web site [link removed 2026 - domain was taken over by an unrelated site; the magazine rebranded to istmagazine.com]
This multi-media site is really interesting. Only in a tanning salon booster's site would you have a picture of Kool and the Gang that appeared a few years ago at a sunbed industry convention in Las Vegas. Note the emphasis on PAC efforts to keep tanning in a positive light. - Current Issue — IslandSunTimes.com [link removed 2026 - see note above]
- Gordon Ainsleigh's monumental tome about the fact that sunbeds will save 30,000 lives a year. Then send him a note, because he doesn't have an e-mail address. Then ask him if he didn't earn money allowing his name to be used by everyone under the sun in the sunbed killing industry, what basically is he in this for? Does he have death wish? Or, is he, like O.J., who was with the Swiss Army Knife, and RJ Reynolds people on their rubber chicken circuit, just another weary traveler in the night, not knowing where he is? OR, is really just hiding the fact that he may have a contract with the International Sun Tanning Network.
- SkinBiology - it helps men's sex life?
- SUNDASH - Sun Business Magazine - SUN Business 2004, The year 2004's complete guide to the business of indoor tanning is back and you can download your full color copy right here! See how to reach your market, how to create an endless season, how to handle the price shopper, right here, right now, without having to wait on the mail.
- Want a used bed? - SUNDASH calls it BEDTRADER.COM - Bed Trader is a service center that sells and accepts trade-ins of all makes and models of used tanning beds. Many of these beds are factory refurbished with warranties and are considered to be in LIKE NEW condition! You may also trade in a bed, and use it's value toward a new purchase.
- Sundial introduction to sunbeds - Special booklets on cancer, positive effects, and buying tips
- Tanning Salons: What's this, their liability insurance doesn't cover melanoma and skin cancer? Pity, eh?
- They mention that doctors once performed lobotomies. In my humble opinion, they haven't even touched the surface of their own mind. Perhaps the industry push to lightly fry our children with u.v. stemmed from the need for a minor frontal lobe adjustement.
Quirks and Quarks about sun beds:
Unexplained mysteries about people who tan