should smokers and drinkers pay more for health care?

It's just as dumb an idea to make people pay more money just because they put themselves at risk as it is for them to making such needless risks in the firstplace. If smokers and drinkers are going to have to pay more money for medicine and help, then you also have to consider these:

Outdoor workers who are exposed to the sun for the higher odds of getting skin cancer.

People who eat sugary foods that run the risk of getting diabetes.

Overweight people who have the greater risk of heart attacks and diabetes.

Sexual promiscuous individuals that don't protect themselves are more likely to get an STD.

Really, there's no way you're going to discourage every single person from being a dumb shit. When you need help, you need help. No one should be told to pay more for medicine just because they do something that' bad for their health.

Besides, smokers and alcoholics already invst an assload of money in their habbits as it is. Depending upon location, smoking's more expensive than gas and a lot of smokers go through their cigarettes or cigars faster than they can a whole tank of gas.

Jam it back in, in the dark.