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    <author><![CDATA[Claire]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[All this started with "drug-free" workplaces which allowed employers to drug test their workers as a condition of employment. I'll bet that employees being tested for tobacco usage isn't all that far behind. After all, why take anyone's word for it? 
    
    "Soon all of us will realize that we are un-insurable." Thus thee crisis in employer-provided health insurance is solved!
        
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      <![CDATA[First smoking... next obesity? Lesser insurance rates for the non-obese? What about mental illness? Lesser rates for the mentally sound, and how would you define that? And for having had no drug addictions or STDs? Lesser rates for people that don't have any of those? And...  the list could go on, and on. Soon all of us will realize that we are un-insurable.
        
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      <![CDATA[Having recently left the company I used to work for, I find that my wife's insurer does something very similar. I was asked to fill out a questionnaire and for saying I'm a nonsmoker I get a reduction in the part of the premium we pay out of pocket. I think it makes a lot of sense. Why should I pay for the health problems of smokers? To those who wonder if bacon or wine are next, I believe the statistics show that smoking is WAY more serious than other vices.
        
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