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Tattoo Skin Disease
Tattooing, a technique of marking the skin with colors, has been practiced since antiquity.
Although there are no firm statistics, an unpublished 1990 random survey of 10,000 U.S. households revealed that 3 percent of the population as a whole, and 5 percent of men, had tattoos.
Today's tattoos are applied in at least two ways. "Permanent" tattoos are applied by tattooists using a machine that pierces the skin with needles. "Temporary" tattoos can be applied by anyone by pressing a...
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