Summertime Sunscreen Statistics

‘Tis the season for spending a great amount of time outdoors. Whether it’s visits to local parks, mountains, lakes, oceans, and/or “Backyard USA,” now’s the time when most Americans get their biggest doses of Vitamin D from sunlight.

With this in mind, it may surprise you to learn that 40% of US residents reportedly do not wear any sun screen or sun block (not even “a few days” during the summer!), according to a recent public opinion poll (i.e., Marist Poll, interviewing a nationally representative survey of 1,004 US residents; brief methods write-up here).

During your next venture outdoors, please do this…

…so you may avoid this:

By Orie on 7/27/10, In Miscellany, Public Opinion Polling, Tags ,