| 11. | A special government panel in 1991 found no connection between fire retardant materials and crib deaths.
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| 12. | The Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys said crib deaths peaked at 1, 469 in 1988.
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| 13. | The campaign included hard-hitting advertisements featuring television personality Anne Diamond, who lost a son to crib death.
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| 14. | But for the most part, the cause-- or more likely, causes-- of crib death are largely unknown.
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| 15. | In 1975, Swain, then 21 with two young sons, lost her baby daughter, Tracy, a crib death.
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| 16. | Another was the victim of crib death.
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| 17. | But the tissues of more than half of the crib death babies tested showed high levels of antimony.
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| 18. | They also investigate crib deaths and unexpected deaths in hospitals and examine bodies before cremation at funeral homes.
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| 19. | For example, fathers'smoking in the same room as the infant increased the risk of crib death 8.5 times.
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| 20. | Among babies of nonsmokers, breast-feeding is associated with a 60 percent reduction in the risk of crib death.
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