Rose Rimler
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The best numbers I could find on how common this is, this like sort of skin reaction to tattoos, it comes from a survey of people with tattoos in Germany.
And it found that about 9% of people reported persistent skin problems at least a month after they got their tattoo.
And so it sounds like he might be in that unlucky sliver of people.
So this happens to a fraction of unlucky people, 9% in that German study.
But there are other reasons to be concerned about tattoo ink that's more universal for everyone who gets tattooed.
One of those things is the fact that a lot of tattoo ink contains chemicals that we think are possibly carcinogenic.
You know, a lot of your tattoos are black, I noticed.
But this is what makes some people worried that tattoos might cause cancer.
And we're going to need some more science to figure that out.
So we're going to have to go to Sweden.