So many "teachable moments" last week:
TM No. 1: Don't text while driving to tanning bed.
Did the two new studies last week tell us things we really didn't know?
Does anyone doubt that taking our eyes off the road to tap out messages on the small screen of a cell phone is anything other than -- to borrow a word from another teachable moment -- stupid?
Does anybody doubt that climbing into an ultraviolet coffin might give us something more terrible than a bad tan line?
The studies reported that texting while driving is the same as drinking and driving. And that tanning beds are close to arsenic and cigarettes in the cancer category.
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