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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2002

A study published last month in the Journal of Pediatrics links secondhand smoke to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

According to researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, SIDS babies had more nicotine in their lungs than infants who died of other causes. Native women and men have among the highest rates of smoking in the country.

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Study links smoking and SIDS (The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 3/18)

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