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On January 16th, the American Lung Association released the “State of Tobacco Control 2013,” a nationwide report that measures advances in tobacco control policies by all 50 states and the federal government. The report assigns grades that indicate whether or not governments are efficiently and comprehensively working limit the harmful effects and huge toll in lives and dollars that tobacco use causes each year. This year Indiana received two F’s, a D and a C on the four areas the report researches. WFHB Correspondent Jennifer Whitaker spoke to Lindsay Grace, the American Lung Association of Indiana’s Manager of Advocacy, about those criteria, Indiana’s grades and what the state is doing or not doing to protect its citizens, for today’s WFHB feature exclusive.
