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===Tobacco smoke=== SIDS rates are higher in babies of mothers who [[Smoking and pregnancy|smoke during pregnancy]].<ref name="sullivan"/><ref>[[Surgeon General of the United States|Office of the Surgeon General of the United States]] [http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/speeches/06272006a.html Report on Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806133133/http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/speeches/06272006a.html |date=2011-08-06 }}([http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report/fullreport.pdf PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205173605/http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report/fullreport.pdf |date=2009-02-05 }})</ref> Between no smoking and smoking one cigarette a day, on average, the risk doubles. About 22% of SIDS in the United States is related to maternal smoking.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Anderson TM, Lavista Ferres JM, Ren SY, Moon RY, Goldstein RD, Ramirez JM, Mitchell EA | title = Maternal Smoking Before and During Pregnancy and the Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 143 | issue = 4 | pages = e20183325 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 30858347 | pmc = 6564075 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2018-3325 }}</ref> SIDS correlates with levels of [[nicotine]] and its derivatives in the baby.<ref name="Bajanowski">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bajanowski T, Brinkmann B, Mitchell EA, Vennemann MM, Leukel HW, Larsch KP, Beike J | title = Nicotine and cotinine in infants dying from sudden infant death syndrome | journal = International Journal of Legal Medicine | volume = 122 | issue = 1 | pages = 23β28 | date = January 2008 | pmid = 17285322 | doi = 10.1007/s00414-007-0155-9 | s2cid = 26325523 }}</ref> Nicotine and derivatives cause alterations in [[neurodevelopment]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lavezzi AM, Corna MF, Matturri L | title = Ependymal alterations in sudden intrauterine unexplained death and sudden infant death syndrome: possible primary consequence of prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking | journal = Neural Development | volume = 5 | pages = 17 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20642831 | pmc = 2919533 | doi = 10.1186/1749-8104-5-17 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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