Peter, I was never able to buy the story that skin cancer is caused by exposure to the sun but as you know this often repeated warning has worked its scare effects on the entire world. I'm sure the sun-protection lotion companies have been laughing all the way to the bank for quite a while now. Not to mention getting the doctors off the hook of having to come up with another answer to why people contract skin cancer. Nancy...
----- Actually, Nancy, I have read somewhere that sun exposure is not the real cause of skin cancer (melanoma) but other contributing factors, and that exposure to the sun (within reasonable limits) actually helps against melanoma. But I don't have the source readily available. If sun exposure alone were the cause of melanoma, one would expect the citizens of equatorial or sun-drenched countries to be dropping like flies from this cancer, but I have not heard such. Peter
