Do all of you really cover up now that sun is toxic?

[Mary in KC]

I wear long sleeves and long pants all of the time now. Never get any sun at all - except for just a few minutes a day for my vitamin D.

There is another report out that the Ozone layer is the worst its ever been. Skin cancer warnings are out.

I just wondered if other people keep covered up like I do.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. well, the sun has always been toxic...

[Texasgal]

2. OH heck ya!

My descent is Swedish, I have very fair skin and we have a history of skin cancer in our family.

I look like a freak in the summer... covered from head to toe with a shit load of sun screen. :)

I also use UV sprays in my hair and a daily moisturizer with UV protection as well!

I definitely keep covered up!

[Aiptasia]

3. No...

But I do stay out of the sun as much as possible. My family is prone to skin problems and both of my parents have had benign skin cancers removed, so I stay out of it as much as possible.

And I live in a resort town. I go to the beach maybe twice a year, usually at night.

I'm just worried about all of those cherry red sunburns I got as a kid coming back to haunt me.

[RebelOne]

10. There is no such thing as a benign cancer.

Any cancer is malignant. And yes, that sunburns could come back to haunt. My mother developed skin cancer when she was in her late 60s. It was due to all the time spent on the beach when she was in her late 20s.

[MazeRat7]

4. Well if you dont... you will end up like this...

Yes, that is Jack Palance....

Be careful out there on the "dusty trails".....


MZr7

[Heidi]

5. Well, yeah.

I'm fair complected and once had a really serious sunburn which required a visit to the emergency room. I'm older and wiser now (mostly older).

[phusion]

6. No...

I'll take my chances. Love the sun too much!!

[RebelOne]

7. I have been wearing sun screen for many years.

After living in South Florida and seeing many people I know, including my own mother, get skin cancer, I was never without sun screen. In fact, my makeup has sun screen in it and then I apply sun screen over that.

[johnnie]

8. Yeah...I don't even go outside

I even sneak my cigarettes in the bathroom at work because I don't want to go outside in the cancer-sun.

[liontamer]

9. I do

but mostly out of vanity. I'm more concerned about wrinkles than skin cancer

[Mary in KC]

13. There is that, too.

I am pushing 60 and I don't have a wrinkle on my face and I'm sure it's because I never was out in the sun much. I see some people and they are 35 and their skin just looks like five miles of bad road. I don't know if they were sunbathers or what.

I remember people when I was little that laid out until their skin just looked like leather. Could have made a bomber jacket out of it.

[flygal]

11. I am whiter than white

so yeah - lots of "liquid shirt" for me. I hate water sports outdoors like boating, fishing, etc - it's too painful!

[supernova]

12. Sunscreen, Sunscreen, Sunscreen

when I go out. I don't sit out and try to tan, haven't since I was in college.