Charge smokers more for insurance?

Big tobacco companies and anti-cancer activists are standing in opposition to a part of the Affordable Care Act that allows insurance companies to charge smokers 50 percent more than patients who do not use tobacco, Washington Post reports.

So what´s the big fuss? Smokers worldwide cost a lot of money due to bad health as a consequence of smoking. Charging smokers more for insurance isn’t necessarily a bad idea.

For obvious reasons – disruption of business – the tobacco industry is opposed to any measure that might lower its income. As for smokers – the best way to evade higher insurance costs is quite simple: Quit smoking!