Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

How about sueing Heinz for baked beans makng me fart so hard it burns my butt.

Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

ohhh not the curried beans
hang on if theres two theres more lets take it to europe :p:

Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

The thing is not that the companies are at fault for sending them to these places but rather that they did not warn them about the dangers. In the same way that smoking companies did not warn of the dangers of smoking.

Unlike those smoking companies however I do not think that travel companies are responsible for the danger. They are selling flights and accommodations, they do not sell the sun. I do think that they should warn people and give more advice as they have a responsibility to their customers (its just not a legal one).

Thankfully a lot of awareness has been raised in recent years and the danger of the sun have finally started to be understood, even by those who think the sun is healthy.

Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

I really have never heard so much tripe in my life. Suing your tour operator for getting skin cancer?

Like suing the pub for the fact that you fell over on a good stretch of road because you drank too much? Or indeed, suing Starbucks for getting an injury from lifting a coffee cup containing a hot beverage?

Christ people, where has common sense all gone these days? :mad:

Of course if you're going to sit out in the sun for hours on your holiday without protection you can potentially get skin cancer? Of course you're going to get burnt if you lift a coffee cup containing a hot beverage. It's all self inflicted, nothing more.

It's getting ridiculous. I await the day when I read that some bloke/woman sues a club because she/he got STDs because of not stopping them from having a s |-|ag in the toilet on a night out. :rofl:

Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

Can I just remind people that this was a study suggesting the possibility and not someone suing a travel company.

Can I also say that the effects of the sun have been underestimated and so was the danger of skin cancer, it is a very serious danger and up until a few years ago it wasn't treated as so. The problem was that people were unaware of the danger

Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

This is silly. For a start, it has been increasing sunny here over the past few years. If someone gets Skin cancer, it's entirely possible they got it here.

Where will it stop? Petrol companies being sued because people who live near roads have got Asthma? Perhaps people suing the local council when their relatives hang over the edge of a railway bridge to grafitti and fall..

Re: People to sue tour operators for getting skin cancer on holiday?
 

But we all know - it's only a matter of time.