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Smart Tan is gearing up to attend PC Marketing’s “Your Source for Bigger Profits” tanning expo. The show will take place in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey at the Hilton from January 21-23 with a focus on new product presentations and …

Vitamin D lowers the risk of dying from H1N1 swine flu, a study to be published in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

“Vitamin D also has a relationship to inflammation and obese patients may already have a …

British Columbia’s Capital Region District — an area of about 370,000 people in and around Victoria on Vancouver Island — surprisingly reneged on its promise to form a working group with the tanning community and instead passed a bylaw Wednesday …

Smart Tan is preparing to attend Tan Makers’ 10th annual tanning seminar on January 23 at the Hilton Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. This is an opportunity to meet and network with representatives from companies across the country.

Presentations will begin …

“The dogma, now fossilized in print, is that any tan is a sign of skin damage. Tell that to Darwin. Pigmented melanocytes in the skin are a system that protects it from excessive UV, which evolved long before the advent …

Professional indoor tanning facilities do a better job teaching the correct usage of chemical suncreen than “sun scare” groups who manufacture and mass-market the product, according to the International Smart Tan Network. Our position is based on the following:

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Groups that plan to propose under-18 tanning restrictions to states, provinces and municipalities are ignoring conflicting data in a blind effort to denegrate any and all UV exposure, International Smart Tan Network believes.

Groups are pointing at survey research on …

MTV has partnered with Foursquare, a geo-location social media firm, to allow users of the application to earn a “Jersey Shore” themed badge. According to the Wall Street Journal, the badge is a reward for living the GTL lifestyle, a …