Question:
I remember about 20 years ago, all the commercials were praising
Coppertone for helping to get sun tan. Now we have gone in another
extreme: sun all of a sudden has become an enemy and we all need
protection, otherwise we get skin cancer. People are spending
billions on buying sun blockers. Let us see, what is the evidence
that sun causes skin cancer. As usual, there are some statistics to
support it: Southern states have more cases than Northern, white
people more often have skin cancer than blacks.
On the other hand, skin cancer often appears on the parts of body,
which are never exposed to sun. Less than 10,000 people die from skin
cancer in US each year. To place this in proper perspective, people
in US are 10 times more likely to be killed in a hospital due to a
medical error or twice as likely to be shot to death by a gun. People
are now spending billions on the so-called sun-blockers, trying to
save themselves from something, which does not threaten them at all:
out of 300 sun-baders, 299 never get skin cancer. If the sun was
really responsible for skin cancer, should not the number be much
greater? Last, but not least: if sun were the cause of skin cancer,
introduction of sun-blockers would have significantly reduced the
cases of skin cancer. It did not.
Answer:
I bet you don't get much sun exposure in prison.
But that would be ironic if you got skin cancer!
I guess you'd blame it on all the people plotting against you...
