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I have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

I have never had a problem getting insurance for anything and have been paying for my own insurance ever since I got out of school.

There are numerous "stupid" behaviors that cost taxpayers far more money than smokers do and none of them are being singled out for job discrimination, in fact in many places they either or are or are about to be made protected against job discrimination. Start railing against them and maybe you just might get some sympathy from me......I doubt either will happen, but one never knows.

The 5'5" state employee sitting next to me at the bar drinking booze and eating fries is probably costing you poor dumped upon taxpayer more than the cop that enjoys a cigarette with his coffee or after work.

To use your own phrase "quit trying to make me pay for bad thinking" I beg you to please rethink yours. I'm sick and bloody tired of paying for the constant harrassment of smokers. Cigarette tax revenue goes to bogus organizations that promote bogus science and spend major dollars on bogus advertising campaigns claiming smokers are the cause of practically every disease known to man.

I have never had a problem getting insurance for anything and have been paying for my own insurance ever since I got out of school.

Good - enjoy your smokes

There are numerous "stupid" behaviors that cost taxpayers far more money than smokers do and none of them are being singled out for job discrimination

Such as?

The 5'5" state employee sitting next to me at the bar drinking booze and eating fries is probably costing you poor dumped upon taxpayer more than the cop that enjoys a cigarette with his coffee or after work.

Bad behavior is bad behavior is bad behavior - plus a "smoker" enjoying a single cigarette a day and no more is few and far between. I've never known one, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Also, bad diet can be corrected by eating better - eating bad is not the same as inhaling toxic chemicals. Furthermore, gained weight through bad diet and be lost through exercise and caloric restriction. How many folks were cured of ephysema and bronchiogenic carcinoma (which coincidentaly has increased in parallel with cigarete smoking trends), again? Hmmm? An easy 60% of the sickest patients I interview have a history of smoking. One guy who'd had two quadruple bypass surgeries from repeat MI's, and congetive heart failure was told by his physician that if he didn't stop smoking he'd die - soon. This guy would not stop, got pneumonia and has been on a vent. for the last few weeks @ about 7,000-10,000 grand a day. He's 52 and probably leaving two kids and a wife behind. Selfish habit indeed.

I'm sick and bloody tired of paying for the constant harrassment of [non]smokers.

Kind of like I'm tired of paying for stupid behavior.