By John McCarthy

Of the 600 youngsters who start smoking every day, most are unaware there is a link to later life blindness according to the Macular Society which today launched the ‘Is it Real?’ campaign.

The campaign was launched to inform children of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries. Furthermore smokers are over twice as likely to suffer from it than non-smokers.

A survey of 10-year-olds found that 95 per cent did not know that smoking increases the risk of blindness even though they ranked blindness as the ‘most feared’ consequence of smoking, ahead of heart Read full story ›

Source: The Drum