Sun tanning is a popular pastime in many areas.

Ultraviolet light induces melanin production from melanocyte cells to cause sun tanning of skin.

In the 1940s, women's magazines started using advertisements that encouraged sun bathing, with greater emphasis on sun tanning than swimming.

Sun tanning describes a darkening of the skin in a natural physiological response stimulated by exposure to ultraviolet radiation from sunshine (or a sunbed).

There was some evidence that sun tanning did help in the remission of the disease, but Perrysburg-40 miles south of Buffalo-had very little sunshine in the winter.

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Seacourt Pavilion was briefly featured in the 2009 MTV series Jersey Shore, where the female cast members go tanning at the Simply Sun Tanning salon.

"Most likely, getting a little sun isn't worse than getting too much sun or too little sun," said Jan Meshon, a co-owner of City Sun Tanning, a salon on East 13th Street.

Historically boaters were fashionable headgear up till about the 1920s at which time Sun tanning started to become fashionable; prior to this ladies would commonly be seen making use of parasols to protect their white skin from the sun's harmful rays.