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- The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) retracted a January claim that sunbeds carry the same cancer risk as smoking.
- Full Fact, a fact-checking organization, said smoking causes about 80 times more UK cancer cases than sunbeds.
- The DHSC corrected it in March after intervention by the Office for Statistics Regulation.
- Experts emphasized the importance of accurate health information.
- The DHSC pledged to avoid such comparisons in the future.
