Researchers said that the number of cases of Sudden Infant DeathSyndrome (SIDS) had fallen following high-profile campaigns and this hadrevealed a strong link between cot death and second-hand smoke. Theproportion of SIDS deaths in babies born to mothers who smoked whilepregnant rose from 57 per cent to 86 per cent in the past 15 years.
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