The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7289 p273
6 March 2004

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Smoking and blindness

Smokers are up to four times as likely to become blind in later life from age-related macular degeneration than non-smokers, researchers reveal in this week’s BMJ (2004;328:537).