• Spabreaks.com Home
  • About
  • Contact us


  • Home
  • Spa reviews
    • Spotlights
    • Spa and cancer
    • Accessible spas
    • Celebrity reviews
  • News
    • Headlines
    • Community
      • Who are you talking to?
      • Next big thing
    • Spa Glossary
  • Food
    • Breakfast
    • Lunch and snacks
    • Cocktails
    • Healthy eating
    • Smoothies
    • Sweets and desserts
    • Diets
  • Entertainment
    • Interviews
      • Industry Experts
      • Celebrity
    • Books
    • Gifts
    • Lifestyle
    • Video
  • Travel
    • Top 10
    • Five reasons
    • Golf guide
  • Skincare
    • Spa tips
    • Spa treatments
    • Spa products
    • Make-up
    • Tried and tested
  • Health
    • Coping with cancer
    • Life after spinal injury
    • A day in a life
    • Fitness
      • Yoga
      • Exercise
  • Features
  • Elysium Collection

Breaking

The new face of luxury aesthetic spa treatments

Get the holiday vibe at home and plan things to look forward to

A little more me-time and a little less FaceTime in 2021

Why a spa break's more than a luxury: spa health benefits

The Spa Effect: rediscovering the things that make you feel like you


Should there be a tax on sunbeds?

0 Comment
 28 Jul 2016   Posted by BonnieF


sunbed

We all know that sunbeds are bad for you in the grand scheme of things.  So much like the imminent sugar tax, should there be a tax on dangerous levels of tanning?  The Bevan Foundation in Wales thinks so.

The think tank is all about ideas that make Wales fair, prosperous and sustainable and to improve people’s lives.  With that in mind, they have proposed a sun bed tax in a report called Tax for Good: Devolved taxes for a better Wales.

While no specific figures were mentioned, the rather logical thinking behind it is to make sunbed sessions more expensive and therefore dissuade people from using them.  The idea is that it would be a tax that’s passed directly onto the consumer rather than to businesses, applied at the point of sale on top of the cost of the sunbed session.  It was also mentioned by the organisation’s director that the figure would have to be substantial enough to put devotees off using them, or at least, using them frequently.

In 2009 the Welsh Assembly’s Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee estimated that there were 400-500 tanning salons operating in Wales.  In perspective, in 2013 across the UK there were 14,509 new cases of malignant melanoma according to Cancer Research UK, a figure which had risen by more than 360% since the 1970s.  Of those, it’s estimated that 86% are preventable and that 100 malignant melanoma deaths each year in the UK are caused by sunbed use.

All pretty scary stats, so maybe The Bevan Foundation has a point.  When the story was published on Professional Beauty, one reader commended: “the problem is the public being so ill informed and salons being legally silenced to be able to speak about the health benefits of tanning, i.e. [saying] some skin conditions benefit from UV… people with low self-esteem feel more confident with a nice tan. All this is never mentioned. All you hear is scare mongering in an already heavily regulated industry.”

So, what do you think?  Should there be a tax on sunbeds?

Save

    Share This

Written by BonnieF
A journalist by trade, Bonnie is the Editor for Spabreaks.com. Keen to spread the message on accessible wellbeing and a spa experience for all, she thinks green smoothies are somewhat overrated and her favourite spa treatment is an Elemis Couture Technology facial.


Related Posts


Top tips for self-care this winter, from mood boosting nutrition to aromatherapy for mental wellbeing
November 9, 2020

Fast before the feast: why detox is best before Christmas
November 4, 2020

How to beat the winter blues
September 21, 2020

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Search

  • Recent Posts

    • The new face of luxury aesthetic spa treatments
    • Get the holiday vibe at home and plan things to look forward to
    • A little more me-time and a little less FaceTime in 2021
    • Why a spa break’s more than a luxury: spa health benefits
    • The Spa Effect: rediscovering the things that make you feel like you


  • Top 10

    • Local spas: explore some of our favourite spas in Manchester
      November 18, 2020
    • Top 10 romantic autumn spa breaks
      September 28, 2020
    • 10 of the best spas to (re)visit before the end of the summer
      August 26, 2020

  • Spa treatments

    • Spa treatments to fight the winter blues
      December 21, 2020
    • Six ways to beat the January blues with aromatherapy
      December 14, 2020
    • Spas to stave off the winter blues this year
      October 28, 2020


© 2001-2019 Spabreaks.com. All rights reserved.