%0 Journal Article
%T Educating smokers about the risk of blindness ¨C insights to improve tobacco product health warning labels
%A Annette S. H. Schultz
%A David Hammond
%A Geoffrey T. Fong
%A Julie Br£¿l¨¦
%A Marlee M. Spafford
%A Ornell Douglas
%A Ryan David Kennedy
%J Archive of "Tobacco Induced Diseases".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s12971-016-0094-7
%X Health warning labels (HWL) on tobacco products help educate smokers about the health effects from smoking; however, there is a need to improve HWL content including images and text to increase effectiveness. In Canada, a HWL was created that communicates smoking¡¯s causal association with ¡°blindness¡± from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This study surveyed Canadian optometrists about their opinions regarding the image and text used in the ¡°blindness¡± HWL
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992326/