SIDS prevention--good progress, but now we need to focus on avoiding nicotine.
Chong et al. examined risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) before and after the start of the Swedish campaign to reduce the risk of SIDS. They found that maternal smoking was the strongest risk factor for SIDS in the post-campaign compared to the pre-campaign period.


CONCLUSIONS
After successful results of the SIDS campaigns to prevent prone sleeping, strong efforts need to be undertaken to eliminate maternal smoking during pregnancy altogether without replacing cigarette smoking with other nicotine delivery devices such as snuff, gum or patches.
Sundell
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Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2585, USA. hakan.sundell@vanderbilt.edu
D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology