Survey: 24 Percent Between 18-50 Tattooed

Matthew Jessup, who goes by the name of "Fatty", works on a custom hip tattoo Saturday, May 13, 2006, at Fatty's Custom Tattooz and Body Piercing parlor in Washington. According to a survey about 36 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 have at least one tattoo. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) (Lawrence Jackson - AP)

"It will be like wearing a tattoo like it's jewelry, where you will be able to take it off. It will just fade on its own," Schmieg said.

The telephone survey on tattoos included 253 women and 247 men and was conducted in 2004. It has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

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Associated Press writer Chhayal Parikh contributed to this report.

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On the Net:

American Academy of Dermatology: http://www.aad.org/

FDA tattoo information: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/tattoos.html