Smoking is bad for your Eyes

Basically, smoking is extremely bad for your health and apart from having effect on your teeth, lungs and heart it also has a terrible effect on your Eyes. You may think that smoking is no way related to your eyes and it cannot effect them at all. But you are wrong.

Smoking enhances the release of Oxidants. Oxidants are chemical byproducts that can damage your cells. Cells around the eye are quite vulnerable, even they get damaged in due course of time.

Apart from this smoking also has other effects like cataracts and it speeds age-related macular degeneration.

Macular Degeneration causes the deterioration of the retina of the eye. This may cause a gradual loss of vision. In non-smokers this is caused primarily due to age and also diabetes in some cases. But in smokers, it is more prevalent than non-smokers. Smokers are at twice the risk of Macular Degeneration than non-smokers.

Cataract is another problem that comes as a part of smoking side effects. A study observed that in America, smokers are 60% more susceptible to age related cataracts. Posterior Subcapsular Cataract is 2.6 times more common in heavy smokers. In this type of cataract the cataract appears on the inner surface of the lens of the eye.

With every cigarette you smoke, you are deteriorating the condition of your eyes. Life is as black as your cigarette ash without eyes. Cigarettes are just not worth blindness. Make your mind and quit smoking today. Its now or never!

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