Should Smokers Pay More For Health Insurance?

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Smokers should not have to pay more for health insurance. Smoking cigarettes is not the only reason that people get a higher risk of getting health conditions. Also, there are endless possibilities that causes high percentage of illness.

Smoking tobacco is legal, which means that people are allowed to smoke the desired amount. This goes the same with eating, drinking alcohol and anything that is legal to do but has a risk of getting ill. When there’s an exception, there should not be other actions that has the same reason to the exception action. Although consuming too much alcohol can lead to health issues and over eating can also cause health issues as well. Which means people who does these behaviors should pay more for health insurance with the smokers. Though the reality is, that there are too many exceptions. So, smokers should no pay more money to the health insurance.

Some people say that smokers should pay more for health insurance because they have higher risk of getting health issues than any other people. Though, not all smokers smoke till the limit but some alcohol consumers might drink till the limit. As stated in the first phrase,smoking is not the only reason for humans to get sick. It all depends on how much they act the certain way. If smokers are charged more for health insurance, then alcohol consumers, over eaters and any other doings that can have a high chance of getting ill. Because everybody has the same percentage of getting illness. It is unfair that only smokers get more charged for health insurance when non-smokers might be behaving to get a risk of getting ill.

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