No cosmetic surgery for minors

A draft law in Italy stipulates a ban on cosmetic surgery for teenagers. The Bulgarian daily Novinar welcomes the idea and calls for a similar law in Bulgaria: "The draft law is praiseworthy, because it would reduce the number of those who fall victim to fashion and the 'new values'. With it, Italy will no longer be 'the Wild West of plastic surgery', as the country's deputy health minister has called it. Nevertheless if Italy can be called the Wild West of plastic surgery, our country should be called 'the dark India' of the cosmetic industry. Because there can be no talk of control or prevention of risks related to such operations here. Moreover the attempt to tax our plastic surgeons will be about as successful as looking for a needle in a haystack."

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