"The infant lungs suffer, and become diseased by inhaling the atmosphere of a room poisoned by the tobacco user’s tainted breath. Many infants are poisoned beyond remedy by sleeping in beds with their tobacco-using fathers. By inhaling the poisonous tobacco effluvia, which is thrown from the lungs and pores of the skin, the system of the infant is filled with poison. While it acts upon some infants as a slow poison, and affects the brain, heart, liver, and lungs, and they waste away and fade gradually, upon others, it has a more direct influence, causing spasms, fits, paralysis, and sudden death. The bereaved parents mourn the loss of their loved ones, and wonder at the mysterious providence of God which has so cruelly afflicted them, when Providence designed not the death of these infants. They died martyrs to filthy lust for tobacco. Every exhalation of the lungs of the tobacco slave, poisons the air about him," says Ellen G. White, The Health Reformer (January, 1872), pp 58-59.

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          Ericson A, Kallen B. “An Epidemiological Study of Work with Video Screens and Pregnancy Outcome: II. A case-control study.” 9 Am J Ind Med 459-475 (1986)

          Hoffman HJ, Damus K, Hillman L, Krongrad E. “Risk Factors For SIDS. Results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development SIDS Cooperative Epidemiological Study.” 533 NY Acad Sci 13-30 (1988)

          Hoffman HJ, Hunter JC, Ellish NJ, Janerick DT, Goldberg J. “Adverse Reproductive Factors and The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.” In: RM Harper, HJ Hoffman eds. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Risk Factors and Basic Mechanisms. New York: PMA Publishing, 153-175 (1988)

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          Li D-K, Dalang JR. “Maternal Smoking, Low Birth Weight and Ethnicity in Relation to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.” 134 Am J Epidemiol 958-964 (1991).

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          Mitchell EA. “Smoking: The Next Major and Modifiable Risk Factor.” In: Rognum TO, ed. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: New Trends in The Nineties. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 114-118 (1995)

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          Joseph Milerad, MD, PhD; Åshild Vege, MD; Siri H. Opdal, MD; and Torleiv O. Rognum, MD, PhD. “Objective Measurements of Nicotine Exposure in Victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and in Other Unexpected Child Deaths,” 133 Pediatrics (#2) 232-236 (Aug 1998) (“Victims of SIDS are more often and more heavily exposed to tobacco smoke doses before death than are infants who have sudden infectious deaths.”)

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          Jan Carey, et al., “Study links cigarette smoke, SIDS” (Tobacco Control, March 2004)

“Many men smoke at home and expose their families to the poisonous influence of tobacco smoke. The effects upon feeble infants and sensitive wives must be highly injurious and sometimes deadly.”

“Medical journals report the poisoning of babes from sharing the bed of a tobacco father, and even from being in the room where he smoked; and infant deaths have occurred from no other cause. Says Dr. Trall: “Many an infant has been killed outright in its cradle by the tobacco-smoke with which a thoughtless father filled an unventilated room.”

“medical records state that persons have been killed by sleeping in rooms where tobacco has been rasped, and that babies have been killed by tobacco smoke from the pipe or cigars of fathers.”

"Tobacco use is an important preventable cause of . . . deaths from . . . SIDS. . . . The cigarette . . . injures or kills a sizable proportion of its users when used as intended by the manufacturer. The harm caused by the cigarette is not limited to the user, however, as unborn children and infants are . . . harmed by other people's use of tobacco."

"Smoking outside 'harms children'" (BBC Online, 11 February 2004)

"Slipping outside for a cigarette fails to protect children's health" (by Tara Womersley, The Scotsman, 11 February 2004)

"'Thirdhand Smoke' Can Imperil Babies" (USA Today, 6 August 2006) ("Babies can absorb particles and gases emitted by cigarettes from walls, clothes, hair and skin -- including up to 90 percent of the nicotine found in tobacco smoke. . . . babies, who explore the world by crawling and touching, can swallow, inhale, or absorb dangerous chemicals from cigarette-smoke residue, which can stay in the environment for months . . . . even babies whose parents only smoked outside had detectable levels of the nicotine byproduct cotinine in their bodies, perhaps from hugging their mothers.")

If smokers recognized that they pose a danger to others, this might be soluble. But smokers are typically addicted, brain damaged, abulic, acalculic, unable to recognize and act on even simple pertinent life-saving facts such as "don't ingest poison"!! And the media, politicians and accessories, intentionally refuse to cite the tobacco danger in SIDS, instead they intentionally distract you, by their focusing on minor, fragmentary, aspects such as "sleep position"!

When media and others commit such distortions, distractions, remeber George Orwell said, "The process [of deception] has to be conscious [intentional], or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. . . . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary.”—in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

"Most smokers do not [even] view themselves at increased risk of heart disease or cancer."—John P. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., Paul J. Cleary, Ph.D., "Perceived Risks of Heart Disease and Cancer Among Cigarette Smokers," 281 J Am Med Ass'n (11) 1019-1021 (17 March 1999). Wherefore as they do not perceive such basics, don't even see the danger to themselves, they definitely do not realize the danger that smoking poses to nonsmokers in ways such as this, causing SIDS.

Wherefore nonsmokers'—children and adults—only protection is enforcement of pertinent cigarette control laws, including prosecution of the pushers on murder charges pursuant to the transferred intent doctrine. To protect YOUR child from this "ultrahazardous activity," seek prosecution for the deaths of smokers and other nonsmokers killed by cigarettes.

After-the-fact prosecution of the killer(s) is too little, too late for those already deceased, but it can serve to protect you, your family, the still living.

Do NOT be distracted off getting the criminal laws against poisoning and murder enforced. There are con artists are there who want to distract onto ONLY the civil law, specially, only onto the civil law remedy of mere money damages. Providing money damages to survivors, while better than nothing, does not vindicate the laws against intentional poisonings and killings, does not fully protect YOU.

To protect yourself and your family, it is essential that your area prosecutors be caused to enforce the already-existing laws against poisoning and murder.

An underlying fact is the adverse impact of cigarettes' toxic chemicals on the body. Reason: cigarettes contain large quantities of well-established deleterious ingredients. This fact is so well-established in medicine that an appellate court took judicial notice of the fact, in the case of Banzhaf v F.C.C., 132 US App DC 14, 29; 405 F2d 1082, 1097 (1968) cert den 396 US 842 (1969). For details, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress: a Report of the Surgeon General, Publication CDC 89-8411, Table 7, pp 86-87 (1989), lists examples of deleterious ingredients including but not limited to:

Some uneducated people feel that the tobacco link to SIDS is a new discovery. The herein cited 1860 - 1881 data helps make the point, "When something 'new' in medical literature is published, it is a wise precaution to read previous literature on the subject—that 'something new' may not really be new," a quote from Alison B. Froese and Prof. A. Charles Bryan, "High Frequency Ventilation," 123 Am Rev Resp Dis (#3) 249-250 (March 1981). This is especially so in view of politicians' and media mass censorship and/or disinformation that conceals so many tobacco effects.

Due to cigarettes' deleterious ingredients, cigarettes, when lit, emit deleterious emissions. The pertinent legal term is "ultrahazardous activity." The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW), Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, PHS Pub 1103, Table 4, p 60 (1964), lists examples of cigarettes' deleterious emissions (contrasted to the chemicals' "speed limits" set by the safety rule 29 CFR § 1910.1000) including but not limited to:

In view of these toxic chemicals in such massive, "ultrahazardous," quantities, it is easy to understand why they kill babies. They kill adults!!

"One could as well argue that, since the vast majority of people who smoke in bed don't start fires which kill their children, and many children are killed by fires in homes where parents don't smoke in bed, smoking in bed doesn't cause fires which kill children. That conclusion is, of course, absurd."

The bottom line is, a cause is a cause because the result happens at all, even once.

           A dictionary definition shows the action of third parties in causing babies to die in this way: "sudden infant death syndrome: the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant, typically occurring between the ages of three weeks and five months, and not explained by careful postmortem studies; also called crib or cot death. Abbreviated SIDS." See Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 26th Ed (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co, 1994), p 1641. Deaths from third party action (killing by means of toxic chemicals) should thus result in the use of the correct term "murder." (For the legal community's reaction to the facts about smoking as the predominant factor in SIDS, see 37 Am Jur Trials 1, "Crib Death Litigation.")

          Michigan law MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, bans deleterious cigarettes thus the toxic emissions they emit that cause SIDS deaths. For more information, see the TCPG analysis of the law and the TCPG recitation of pertinent legal terminology. Involuntary foreseeable deaths constitute murder.

          TCPG urges you to help get the SIDS prevention law enforced, using the sample letter to Governor Jennifer Granholm and the sample letter to Attorney General Jennifer M. Granholm.