State Indoor Tanning Laws and Adolescent Indoor Tanning
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Enforcement of State Indoor Tanning Laws in the United States
INTRODUCTION Twenty-eight US states have passed legislation for indoor tanning facilities. To our knowledge, whether these state laws are actually enforced has not been evaluated previously in all 28 states. Therefore, we interviewed key informants in these states to assess enforcement practices. METHODS Two trained interviewers used a structured survey instrument to interview 28 key informan...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2013.301850