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'Smoking also affects blood flow, which of course is closely linked to vision, and indirectly it can be linked with several eye diseases, including glaucoma and cataracts.
'Something I find interesting is that in the late 1980s, when I trained, we were encouraged to ask patients if they smoked. This seems to have fallen by the wayside. UK practitioners seem uncomfortable asking, "Do you smoke?" and then, "Are you aware what there is out there to help you?" Yet smoking is 100 per cent recognised as the strongest controllable risk factor for a big number of eye diseases.'
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