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Cancer fears forces Australia to ban commercial sunbeds

SYDNEY: Most Australian states and territories are set to ban commercial sunbeds from Thursday, in a crackdown on artificial tanning in a country that has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.

The ban -- which comes into force in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and in the Australian Capital Territory on January 1 -- will make Australia the second nation after Brazil to impose such a restriction, campaigners said.

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