should smokers and drinkers pay more for health care?

Originally Posted by ava lilly

I'm not sure if this will pertain to any countries other than Canada since our health care systems obviously differ, but I thought it was an interesting topic.

flipping through the channels earlier today, there was a debate on one of our news stations asking people what they thought about this subject. some were saying yes, because they felt they were a drain on the health care system causing everyone to pay higher taxes for treatments to their "preventable" illnesses, while some of the experts were saying that it's not 100% possible to link lung cancer and other ailments generally related to someone who smokes or drinks. some people can smoke their whole lives and not get lung cancer, while others can develop it from something like pollution without ever smoking.

I don't know how they would even go about adjusting how much smokers/drinkers pay without turning our system into the sort of healthcare where everyone just pays for what they need.

so what are your thoughts?

I like the idea, for any of you who have ever read Company: a Novel by: Max Barry, i like the idea that Non-smokers and smokers are seperated threw little things because of the obvios reason of one being an unhealthy habbit and one not. Now, i have a grandmother who smokes and i am not saying that she is a bad person, i am just saying, like for instance, smokers get more breaks than non-smokers, so it should be fair that non-smokers get an extra holiday that smokers do not get (a little Max Barry for you all). I feel like if you are practicing a proven un-healthy habbit then you should have to pay more for something like medical care because obviously you will have a higher risk of surious health issuies than non-smokers.

But that is just my opition.

Jam it back in, in the dark.