Editor,

RE: "Bleaching is suicidal” (The New Times, January 18).

Skin bleaching gives a severe burning sensation to the practitioners. This is noticeable when you are traveling with the self-made victims on a public bus system—they hurry to shut down the windows to stop the air or sunshine from starting the fire on their skins.

Science has proven that destroying the outer skin is a leading cause of skin cancer, the more reason why it’s in the public interest to ban bleaching creams to prevent the unnecessary drain of public resources that have to be deployed to treat the cancer cases that arise from the scourge of bleaching.

Muhamud