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Does spending your whole day looking at computer screen make you wear glasses?

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No: You may need glasses to view a computer screen in proper focus, but the continued use of a video screen will not cause a change in the eye which will require glasses.

Dr Ham and another doctor agreed

Answered 12/20/2013

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