A new study has warned that smoking over 20 cigarettes a day can cause blindness. The study from Rutgers University noted that chronic tobacco smoking can have harmful effects on “spatial and colour vision”. The findings, published in the journal Psychiatry Research, noted significant changes in the smokers’ red-green and blue-yellow colour vision. This suggests that consuming substances with neurotoxic chemicals, such as those in cigarettes, may cause overall colour vision loss.

For the study, the team looked at 71 healthy people who smoked less than 15 cigarettes in their entire lives and 63 people, who smoked over 20 cigarettes a day. The participants were in the 25-45-year age group. The study’s findings showed noticeable changes in the red-green and blue-yellow colour vision of heavy smokers. Previous studies had also pointed to long-term smoking as doubling the risk for age-related macular degeneration and as a factor causing lens yellowing and inflammation.

So smokers be alert and stop using Cigarette. As Cigarette is injurious to health.

A new study has warned that smoking over 20 cigarettes a day can cause blindness. The study from Rutgers University noted that chronic tobacco smoking can have harmful effects on “spatial and colour vision”. The findings, published in the journal Psychiatry Research, noted significant changes in the smokers’ red-green and blue-yellow colour vision. This suggests that consuming substances with neurotoxic chemicals, such as those in cigarettes, may cause overall colour vision loss.

For the study, the team looked at 71 healthy people who smoked less than 15 cigarettes in their entire lives and 63 people, who smoked over 20 cigarettes a day. The participants were in the 25-45-year age group. The study’s findings showed noticeable changes in the red-green and blue-yellow colour vision of heavy smokers. Previous studies had also pointed to long-term smoking as doubling the risk for age-related macular degeneration and as a factor causing lens yellowing and inflammation.

So smokers be alert and stop using Cigarette. As Cigarette is injurious to health.