Letter: Letter

Published 5 June 1999

From Hilda Anderton

Has anyone considered the possibility that short-sightedness might be linked
to fluorescent lights?

Fluorescent lights are used in greenhouses to make tomatoes grow. Would they
have the same effect on eyes?

Southampton

Issue no. 2189 published 5 June 1999

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