{"title":"Effect of smoking on ocular surface and tear film: A clinico- pathological study","authors":"N. Agrawal, Mk Jharawal, N. Paharia, K. Bansal","doi":"10.15406/aovs.2018.08.00329","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tobacco smoking is a serious public health problem which contains various heavy metals and toxic mineral elements that has been associated with cardiovascular and respiratory disorders. Tobacco smoke contain more than 4000 compounds and a puff of smoke contain 300million to 3.5billion particles existing either in gas or particulate form which on exposure are eventually toxic to ocular tissue and affect eye through ischemic and oxidative mechanism.1","PeriodicalId":90420,"journal":{"name":"Advances in ophthalmology & visual system","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in ophthalmology & visual system","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15406/aovs.2018.08.00329","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Tobacco smoking is a serious public health problem which contains various heavy metals and toxic mineral elements that has been associated with cardiovascular and respiratory disorders. Tobacco smoke contain more than 4000 compounds and a puff of smoke contain 300million to 3.5billion particles existing either in gas or particulate form which on exposure are eventually toxic to ocular tissue and affect eye through ischemic and oxidative mechanism.1