Smoking blamed for rise in cot deaths.SMOKING 20 cigarettes a day in pregnancy increases the risk of losing a baby to cot death cot deathn. Chiefly British Sudden infant death syndrome. cot death Noun the unexplained sudden death of a baby while asleep Noun 1. by 800 per cent, it is claimed. And 10 cigarettes a day may cause a five-fold increase in risk, while passive smoking is also dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "high risk". The figures were revealed in a Scottish Executive briefing yesterday. Scots List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland. Actors (see also humorists) Please refer to List of Scottish actors Architects
As more Scotswomen smoke, topping world league tables of cancers caused by cigarettes, cot deaths may be a vicious spin-off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. . The Scottish Cot Death Trust say 26 babies have died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or crib death, sudden, unexpected, and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant under one year of age (usually between two weeks and eight months old). in the first half of this year compared with 13 in the same period last year. Two more babies are said to have died from the syndrome in the last month and another two cases are suspected. Elsewhere in Britain, there was a massive drop in cot deaths last year. Official figures for England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. released yesterday showed deaths falling by a quarter in 1998 to 284 compared with 393 in 1997 - 28 per cent down. Scottish cot deaths over the same period also fell from 52 to 37 but experts are now baffled by the recent rise. The past four years' figures show an unclear trend in the tragedies, with 46 deaths in 1995, 42 in 1996, 52 in 1997 and a fall to 37 in 1998. Hazel Brooke, the Scottish Cot Death Trust's executive director, admits Scots must be on the alert. She said: "Cot death is far more likely to happen in the winter." A spokeswoman for the Scottish Executive advised parents not to smoke, while Dr Caroline Blackwell, head of an Edinburgh University research team, said: "If the baby stops breathing or cannot be woken, dial 999." |
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