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.

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conference: JAMA Ophthalmology

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Organisation/s: McGill University, Canada

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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