ion of of the radiation that is given off by the sun. The most important radiation the ozone absorbs is the ultraviolet light, UVB. The UVB light has linked to skin cancer, cataracts, damage to crops, and some types of marine life. The types of effects that are formed by overexposure to these harmful UV rays are skin cancer (melanoma and nonmelanoma), cataracts and other types of eye damage, immune system supperession, and premature aging of the skin. It is a fact that one in every five Americans will develop some type of skin cancer in their lifetime. Also, every hour one American dies of skin cancer. The most deadly type of skin cancer is melanoma. This cancer is the most serious and fastest growing cancer in the United States today. The case of this cancer in the past two decades have doubled. This figure is still expected to rise. Nonmelanoma skin cancer are not as deadly as the melanoma cancer. In 1999 more than 960,00

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