[O6ret]

I don’t care if he smokes.

But smokers should be paying several times the ‘standard’ health insurance rate simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers.

[Drew68]

But smokers should be paying several times the ‘standard’ health insurance rate simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers.

It's a myth that smokers use more healthcare than non-smokers. For most of us, the overwhelming majority of our health care costs will be incurred during our last two years of life, whether one is a 17-year old dying from leukemia, a 55-year old dying from smoking-related lung cancer or a 95-year old dying from simple old age. In fact, some argue that smokers actually cost society less by dying younger, saving society decades of elderly-related health costs, retirement benefits, pensions, etc.

[ravenwolf]

simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers.

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I don,t care if people smoke or not but in a free country people should be expected to take the responsibility for them selves, if i am going to pay for some one else,s medical care what does it matter if they smoke or not as that is not the point.

Also i like kissing women who smoke because the ones who don,t taste like oysters,just an observation.

[terycarl]

But smokers should be paying several times the ‘standard’ health insurance rate simply based on the fact that smokers are not as healthy as non-smokers

how's your weight??