# CDC- Tips From Former Smokers – Marlene’s Eye Injections

Marlene knows that she’s lucky to have found a treatment for her eye disease. But getting shots directly into her eyeballs is still upsetting each time she gets them. Marlene smoked and developed wet macular degeneration, a disease that can lead to blindness. In this video from CDC's Tips From Former Smokers campaign, Marlene talks about her monthly treatments and says, “Why did I ever smoke?”

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https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/videos/src/MARLENE_NEEDLE_IN_MY_EYE_VIGNETTE_VCDC0265000H.mp4

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CDC-_Tips_From_Former_Smokers_%E2%80%93_Marlene%E2%80%99s_Eye_Injections.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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