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Pot-smoking dads may increase risk of SIDS 

Fathers who smoke marijuana may be putting their infants at risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a major cause of death among infants, new research suggests.

The findings, reported in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, show that infants of fathers who reported smoking pot at any time after the birth were nearly three times more likely to die of SIDS compared with infants of fathers who did not smoke. And men who smoked during their partner's pregnancy were about twice as likely to have a child who died of SIDS, the investigators found.

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