Smoking can seriously harm your eyes

[Retro]

Everyone knows how harmful smoking is to general health, including causing cancer, but did you know that it can do serious damage to your eyesight too?

Most people are aware that smoking cigarettes is bad for our health. However, the negative effects are far more extensive than many assume. Researchers and medical professionals warn that smoking can profoundly damage the eyes.

Logically, when thinking about the consequences of smoking, lung diseases come to mind first. But that’s not even half the truth. Smoking introduces thousands of harmful substances into the body that damage nearly every organ and are partially carcinogenic. Given this, it’s hardly surprising that smoking can also profoundly damage the eyes. The German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) even warns that tobacco smoke attacks the structures of our eyes, damaging both the retina and the optic nerve, and promotes inflammation and circulatory disorders. Numerous studies also support this.

The article doesn't mention passive smoking, which is also harmful, although not as bad, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's bad for the eyes, too. I know how it can sting mine.

Surprising Effect of Smoking on This Organ

Most people are aware that smoking cigarettes is bad for our health. However, the negative effects are far more extensive than many assume. Researchers and medical professionals warn that smoking can ...

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[AllThingsTech]

Thanks for sharing this! Indeed, I didn’t know this!

 

[AllThingsTech]

I wonder if it’s also bad for the brain? Given that the substances ingested inside the body reach the brain?

 

[Retro]

Yer welcome ATT. Oh, sure it's bad for the brain whether directly or indirectly. I can't give you specifics without Googling it, but anything that damages the body so much will also be bad for the brain.

 

[Hitcore]

Cigarettes are bad for the eyes.
Carrots are good for the eyes.
So after one cigarette be sure to eat a carrot to maintain eye balance.

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[AllThingsTech]

@Hitcore I remember as a kid, I loathed eating carrots yet even more than that, I loathed wearing glasses ! I used to get told that I’d eventually be able to stop wearing glasses eventually if I obeyed about eating carrots, and I fell for it at the time

 

[Hitcore]

Oh yeah, I would also have fallen for that, if I got told something similar during my childhood years!

On a sidenote: it's funny to me that both my parents wore glasses. But I don't. My vision is perfectly fine! I'm really happy about that!

 

[AllThingsTech]

@Hitcore your parents deceived you. You’re adopted. You dunno who your real parents are!

 

[Hitcore]

You know that actually would make a lot of sense.
Sometimes, when I'm looking at my family, I think
>these MFs are NOTHING like me, how on earth am I related to them, lol

 

[AllThingsTech]

@Hitcore FUN FACT
Did you know that sometimes descendants have genes passed down from ancestors but these genes are inactive?

This is why you may have traits of your grandma but not your mother
i.e. Genes handed from grandma to mother but these genes have not been activated
Genes handed from mother have been activated

 

[Hitcore]

You know, I've heard about that. My first ever girlfriend had red hair. Neither of her parents had red hair (both brown hair). But her grandfather had red hair!

That being said I do look and act a lot like my father. And I share some music interests with one of my sisters. But the rest of the family: I have nearly nothing in common with them at all.

I feel like a stranger among them, oftentimes.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Awww haha

Do you feel like you need to yave things in common to feel close to someone @Hitcore ? I used to think that, but I often get the “opposites attract” vibe especially when the person is curious and open-minded! Then again, those are 2 traits we have in common, you could say that

 

[Hitcore]

Do you feel like you need to yave things in common to feel close to someone @Hitcore

A good question. It depends on who the person is. With friends being an opposite can actually be interesting. I have friends from all sorts of backgrounds. But with family having some similarities would be nice. They're almost an entirely different species to me.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Oh, I get you, totally! It’s super awkward when someone cares about you without understanding, and you’re expected to express gratitude, huh?

 

[Hitcore]

Something along those lines, yes. Among other things, it's just that intellectually there is not much compatibility, to put it nicely.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Something along those lines, yes. Among other things, it's just that intellectually there is not much compatibility, to put it nicely.

Emotional intelligence