JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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To improve understanding of the patterns of injury morbidity and mortality in an urban African-American population. ⋯ Interpersonal intentional injury occurs frequently in this population. More attention needs to be paid to prevention and intervention to reduce the toll of this violence. The high prevalence of injury in certain age strata may make general, population-based efforts for injury prevention more efficient than efforts targeted to subgroups.
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The tobacco industry claims that tobacco makes a significant economic contribution to each of the states in the United States. We sought to determine whether Michigan, a nontobacco state, would reap more economic benefits from the presence or absence of tobacco product sales. ⋯ Reducing or eliminating tobacco product spending in Michigan will increase employment in the state, as well as health.