E-cigarettes are causing insurance confusion

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Now that the FDA plans to regulate the devices like their tobacco alternatives, insurers are facing complications. The Affordable Care Act has allowed health insurance companies to charge premiums that are up to 50 percent higher to smokers and other tobacco users than they would to nonsmokers, but the introduction of e-cigarettes into the marketplace have started to make rates calculations a little bit less clear for those insurers. These battery operated devices have some of the properties of their tobacco based counterparts, but not others. Therefore, when it comes…

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Life insurance companies do not prefer e-cigarettes

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The tobacco free options may seem to be healthier but insurers are not seeing them that way. While electronic cigarettes may be designed to mirror the smoking experience while removing the carbon monoxide, tar, and other chemicals and toxins that make tobacco one of the top cancer causers, life insurance companies continue to consider their users in the same way that they would a smoker of a traditional cigarette. Many smokers have been trying to use e-cigarettes to break their nicotine addictions. Quitting smoking is not an easy feat. Life…

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