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A large prospective study has provided evidence of the link between maternal smoking and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (1). The study authors predict that up to 40% of SIDS could be avoided if the mother pregnant mother did not smoke.
The study of 24,986 pregnant women found that children of smokers had more than three times the risk of SIDS than children of non-smokers. There risk of SIDS increased with the number of cigarettes smoked per day (1).
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