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• Mothers' smoking is to blame for up to 90% of cot deaths  

Around 300 babies a year die of cot death, usually between the ages of one and four months

Smoking is to blame for up to 90 per cent of cot deaths, according to a major new study.

Scientists have found that nine out of 10 victims of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) had mothers who smoked during pregnancy.

And they will warn that mothers-to-be who smoke are four times more likely to see their child die from cot death than non smokers.

The report, from Bristol University's institute of child life and health published later this week, calls on the Government to ban expectant women from buying tobacco.

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