04-27-2005, 07:16 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Your personal genetics play a large role in your sensitivity to sun too. People with more "melanin" (skin pigment) tend to be less affected by lots of sun. Those with fair skin can sometimes sustain skin damage by only a short exposure to the sun.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]"Rolling the dice" with melanoma is like the people who smoke "because they enjoy it"...and "can quit any time they want"...but who can't quit even after developing emphysema (or worse). That's another subject, but the same philosophy. We would all like to think we are immortal and something like that could never happen to us. Read the obituaries. I'll bet a lot of those folks were "surprised" too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sorry to be so morbid. Just offering some reality.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]"Rolling the dice" with melanoma is like the people who smoke "because they enjoy it"...and "can quit any time they want"...but who can't quit even after developing emphysema (or worse). That's another subject, but the same philosophy. We would all like to think we are immortal and something like that could never happen to us. Read the obituaries. I'll bet a lot of those folks were "surprised" too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sorry to be so morbid. Just offering some reality.[/#0000ff]
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