Doctors warn about "base tan" before Spring Break

"There is no such thing as a good base tan,” said Dr. Shari Hicks-Graham of Downtown Dermatology in Columbus. She claims that using tanning beds can give a false sense of security when you step outside into real sunlight.“When you get that base tan, it really is just evidence that there is damage that happened to the skin,” said Hicks-Graham.According to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Survey, only about seven percent of high school students said they used ind