By Associated Press
Undated, AL – Hawaii residents live longer than people anywhere else in the country and residents of Alabama are among those with the shortest lives.
A report by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research says the life expectancy in Hawaii is 81-point-three years -- nearly four years longer than the national average.
The director of the University of Hawaii Center on the Family, Sylvia Yuen, says Hawaii residents live longer because they have more access to medical care and live in a cleaner environment.
They're also more likely to exercise and participate in other recreational activities because of the warm environment.
Residents of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana had the shortest lives, dying after about 74 years.
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