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Smoking Linked to blindness Later in Life

British researchers said that smokers are up to four times likely to become blind in later life from age-related macular degeneration.
Unfortunately, many smokers remain largely unaware of this risk, the reseachers said in the British Medical Journal.
AMD is the most common cause of adult blindness, which results in severe irreversible loss of central vision. As many as one in five cases of AMD might be linked to smoking. Evidence also shows that quitting smoking slows the development of AMD, while continued smoking can affect the long term reponce to treatments such as laser therapy.

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