Smoking Causes Blindness: Time for Eye Care Professionals to Join the Fight Against Tobacco [Perspectives]

This report provides new evidence about the link between cigarette smoking and eye disease, which signifies a new role for eye-care professionals in tobacco control on two levels. First, on a clinical level, eye care professionals should integrate smoking cessation treatment in the standard care of patients' management in eye-care settings in order to motivate and help smoking patients in quitting smoking. Second, on a political level, eye care providers can serve as powerful public advocates against tobacco use, thereby significantly enhancing public awareness about the link between smoking and eye disease.
Source: Investigative Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research