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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12305)	1/11/2006 9:38:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 89629

OT It stand an excellent chance of affecting whether an employer offers health insurance except possibly as a perk to managers and executives. That's the action of the management not the smoker. Also I would submit that you have a better claim to demand the right to breathe reasonably healthy air then you do to demand that your employer provides you with insurance. Eventually almost all obese persons will develop problems related to their obesity; only a fraction of smokers will. The fraction of people who smoke regularly for decades and develop health problems related to smoking is very large. And if you are talking about people who are seriously overweight then you should compare them to heavy smokers, not smokers in general. I imagine the fraction of heavy smokers, who remain heavy smokers over many years, who develop health problems related to smoking, approaches 1. More importantly IMO, the fraction of "people who don't smoke but are regularly around smokers", who develop health complications related to smoking, while perhaps strongly exaggerated, is greater then the percentage of "people who are not overweight but who are around others who are overweight" who get health problems from being to fat. Or to put it simply cigarette smoke is an environmental hazard (exaggerated or not) while being fat is not. Tim