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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 5 Environmental tobacco smoke

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Environmental tobacco smoke: SIDS and ETS Exposure

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In a study from Norway and Sweden, elimination of maternal smoking during

pregnancy would have reduced the number of SIDS deaths by 46.7%.

Pediatrics, October 1997, p. 616

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British researchers concluded that nearly two-thirds of SIDS cases are linked to

tobacco smoke. Even if a baby is merely in a room where smoking has occurred, the

risk of dying from SIDS can increase eight-fold.

Time, August 5, 1996, p. 16

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Fetal exposure to maternal smoking before birth may have a greater impact on a

baby's risk of dying from SIDS than does postnatal exposure to environmental

tobacco smoke.

Reuters Health, April 1, 1999, (from the American Journal of Epidemiology, April

1999)

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The odds ratio for SIDS is increased to 2.13 when the mother smokes.

Thorax 54: 357-366, 1999

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