The American Lung Association unveiled its annual report card on state tobacco-control activities this week and praised the growing number of states that have adopted smokefree workplace laws and raised tobacco taxes.

On the other hand, most states have done a poor job of funding youth smoking prevention programs, according to the American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control 2006.

States were graded in four areas: smokefree air, tobacco taxes, prevention funding and restrictions on youth access to tobacco products. Only Maine received an "A" grade in all four categories (the state repeated the feat from 2005). A total of 26 states and the District of Columbia received passing grades of "C" or better -- the most ever -- in the smokefree workplace category.

But 34 states received "Fs" for failing to adequately fund tobacco prevention and cessation programs, and just nine got "As" in this category.

Several traditional tobacco-growing states won praise for taking steps to curb public smoking, such as Tennessee and Virginia. But the Lung Association chided Congress and the Bush administration for failing to take any meaningful steps to control tobacco use, giving the federal government an "F" for its lack of effort in 2006.