Smoking and vaping may lead to eye problems
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North American researchers say people who smoke and vape have a higher likelihood of issues with their eyes than people who just smoke cigarettes. The researchers looked into the effects of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes on more than 4,350 people aged 13 to 24, and say those who smoked just cigarettes were more likely to have eye issues such as pain, burning, itching, redness, dryness, glare, blurriness, as well as headaches, than those who only used e-cigarettes, but the combo led to the most frequent symptoms.
Funder: This study was supported by the
Taube Research Faculty Scholar Endowment to
Dr Halpern-Felsher and through additional support
to Dr Halpern-Felsher from grant U54 HL147127
from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
and the US Food and Drug Administration Center
for Tobacco Products. The study was also
supported by the National Cancer Institute of the
National Institutes of Health under award
K99CA267477 and the Stanford Maternal and Child
Health Research Institute (Dr Gaiha). This work was
also supported by an unrestricted grant from
Research to Prevent Blindness and National Eye
Institute (NEI P30-EY026877) to the Stanford
Department of Ophthalmology.
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