Yesterday, I was out at a rally that was raising money for cancer research. Three hours in the sunlight, and by the time the rally ended, I was left with a nice little reddish glow to my face. My friend even made the comment to me that, "the ironic thing is I'm gonna get skin cancer from this." Now, I'm a grown man and I know how to take care of my skin, but I think about all the kids running around in the direct sunlight without hats, sunglasses, or probably even SPF protective lotion. It makes me think about the time when I was younger.
It wasn't until recently (last ten years or so) that we started hearing about skin cancer and how we should wear sunscreen if we are going to be out in the sunlight for any extended amount of time. I remember being a kid in the Arizona desert, running around all hours of the day outside, and I don't remember the conversation of sunscreen ever being brought up. Why is that?
Many people claim that we didn't know about skin cancer until recently. Why? Did the sun's radiation suddenly get stronger? Did our skin become weaker? Cancer's always been around. You would think people would have seen and diagnosed skin cancer for centuries. That being said, I don't think that skin cancer is anything new. I just think our parents were just ignorant. The information wasn't in their faces the way it's in ours, and they sure the hell weren't going to spend the time looking the information up (remember, they didn't have the Internet at their fingertips like we do). The thing that really pisses me off is that there are still tons of parents who have their kids running around without protection from the sun. Those parents aren't ignorant. They're morons!
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