Tobacco Use and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in Colorado

The Colorado Child Fatality prevention system recently published a report titled “Tobacco Use, SHSe & Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) in Colorado from 2009-2018”, to report on the role of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure in sudden unexpected infant death or SUID in Colorado. The report presents findings using ten years of Colorado Child Fatality Prevention System data, highlighting trends of SUID and tobacco use in Colorado and presents policy, prevention and cessation recommendations to decrease infant deaths due to exposure to tobacco use and secondhand smoke. The report was co-written with the STEPP tobacco prevention, secondhand smoke and cessation staff. Differences in quit outcomes between men and women A recent study out of Canada continues to confirm that, on average, women are less likely to quit smoking than men, when the interventions are the same. This relationship held even when researchers controlled for the dose of the nicotine replacement therapy provided. Further research is required to determine which factors contribute to this inequality of outcomes. In the meantime, clinicians and public health professionals should keep this in mind in program designs. In this study, there were 14,713 women and 12,888 men enrolled. The 3-point discrepancy in outcomes (24.1% and 27.4%, respectively) resulted in 3,546 (women) and 3,531 (men) who quit-or roughly 50/50.

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