I love my home state of Kentucky, but I can’t say I’m surprised to discover it tops an index for unhealthiest behavior.  I’m not exactly sure what they mean by unhealthy behavior, but I have a few guesses.

People in Kentucky love to run around in the woods with guns.  They often do this early in the morning at or just before dawn.  This doesn’t strike me as particularly healthy behavior.

Tobacco is a huge cash crop in Kentucky, and part of harvesting it requires one to fire cure or “smoke” it.  This basically means that each fall the air of Kentucky is clogged with the aroma of burning tobacco.  Assuming the whole uproar over secondhand smoke isn’t just some conspiracy propagated by Anheuser-Busch to get us to drink more instead of smoking, I’d say it classifies as an unhealthy behavior. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…