This is real nice, free country...
Politicians tax smokers to death, there's the penalty for not signing up for Obamacare, or you can buy the unaffordable for shit healthcare.
P.S. I don't smoke
ObamaCare slams smokers with sky-high premium costs, could backfireBy William La Jeunesse
Published November 25, 2013
FoxNews.com
ObamaCare may have backfired in its goal of making smoking so expensive that users quit, public health experts say, as sky-high insurance premiums force smokers to drop coverage altogether and lose smoking cessation programs along with it.
"Tobacco surcharges are not proven to help tobacco users quit and there are major concerns that they will prevent people from getting health care coverage," the American Lung Association's Jennifer Singleterry said.
The ALA supports the Affordable Care Act, as does the American Cancer Society, but both oppose the tobacco penalty because they believe it makes insurance unaffordable for smokers.
"Charging tobacco users more in health insurance premiums, sometimes thousands of dollars more, studies have shown, will price smokers out of the market," says Singleterry.
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