Bj”rn Forsstr”m (2:203/614.61) wrote to Steven Horn at 21:01 on 18 Jan 2004:

 BF> Of cause you can't be in the sun 24/7 and that goes especially for
 BF> us that aint used
 BF> to the sun.

I'm used to the sun but I simply burn.  The first time was when we were
holidaying on the North Sea when I was 7.

 BF> When I was down in Greece this fall I only used sun-block 20 the
 BF> first week untill my
 BF> skin had got a nice tan and that took care of it for the next 2
 BF> weeks. But being close
 BF> to, or in the water and receive all that reflections makes it double
 BF> worse.

I'd be using SPF30 the whole time.

 BF> The skin cancer have increesed here in the past years very
 BF> much and the docs think it has something do do with the ozone-layer.

They may be right but the most significant thinning of the ozone layer has
been in the Arctic and Antarctic.  That won't touch you or me.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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