Indoor Tanning and Skin Cancer

According to a new study, researchers at San Diego State University have found that non-heterosexual black male teens are at risk for developing skin cancer based on indoor tanning habits. The study's lead author, Aaron Blashill, assistant professor of psychology at San Diego State University, said in a press release, "Contrary to popular thought, racial and ethnic minorities engage in indoor tanning and it appears to be particularly concentrated among sexual-minority adolescent boys." For their study, researchers accumulated their results from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey which examined risky health behaviors among 9th- to 12th-grade public and private school students.