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Al Grillo—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 29, 2014 11:08 PM UTC America’s top universities may be teaching a dangerous lesson about tanning. Twelve percent of the nation’s top colleges and universities have tanning beds on campus, and nearly half have them either on campus or in off-campus housing, according to a report published online Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology. Students can even use “campus cash” debit cards loaded up by parents for tanning at 14 percent of the 125 top colleges and universities compiled by U.S. News & World Report. 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