On the one hand, I don't know if I could in all honestly call it an 'addiction.' On the other hand, isn't the central tenet of 'addition' repeatedly doing something even though you know it's bad for you?
Tanning is a big thing around where I live. My sister used to work at a tanning salon keeping the appointments and such. She tells me that after the first hint of Spring they would put together big folders full of tanning schedules. Big blocks of time from 2:00 in the afternoon to 8:00 at night completely filled up for months at a time in advance thanks to this idiocy. I live in a relatively mid sized town (roughly 12,000 people) and we have nearly two dozen salons devoted solely to the almighty tanning booth. I was getting gas this afternoon at a station across from one of them. In the 10 minutes it took to do my business, I seen nearly a dozen women go into one and watched one woman in an SUV actually wait for a parking space to open up.
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