{"id":3650,"date":"2019-07-09T07:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"smoking-is-a-big-risk-to-your-eyesight-new-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/09\/smoking-is-a-big-risk-to-your-eyesight-new-study-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Is A Big Risk To Your Eyesight, New Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cigarette\nsmokers are twice as likely to lose their sight as non-smokers; a new study has\nrevealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although\nmany smoking is generally known to be bad for the lungs, the study published by\nthe Africa Academy of Ophthalmology revealed that smoking can also damage the\neyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It noted\nthat the chemicals in cigarettes can cause cells in the macula \u2014 the most\nsensitive part of the retina \u2014 to die or the blood vessels in it to burst,\nleading to irreversible damage, and possible loss of sight eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study\nnoted that this not only affects direct smokers, but even those who experiences\nsecond-hand smoking. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Smoking-big-risk-to-eyesight\/1056-5188378-kp12dyz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Cigarette smokers are twice as likely to lose their sight as non-smokers; a new study has revealed. Although many smoking is generally known to be bad for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}