The Lung Association Gets It Wrong

RALEIGH — As the American Lung Association prepares to release its annual State of the Air report Thursday, including county rankings that often receive significant media attention, a new study from the John Locke Foundation calls into question the usefulness of the ALA ranking system, particularly when applied to North Carolina communities. “The annual American Lung Association is methodologically flawed,” the Locke Foundation study concludes. “Its reporting of data and detrimental health effects is misleading, and its grading system and rankings are meaningless.”