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Where you live may play role in your health

Residents of St. Charles County have the best opportunities in Missouri to be healthy, while people who live in St. Louis city have the worst, according to a new report.

The counties and independent cities in each state were ranked by various factors that can affect health â?? smoking, obesity, poverty rates, binge drinking, violent crime, education levels and birth weights among others â?? for the national County Health Rankings report from the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.