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Three states and DC prevent businesses from requiring smokers to pay even a portion of the huge costs they impose on fellow workers under a personal responsibility portion of Obamacare which permits up to a 50% smoker surcharge

Smokers are already being charged 14%-22% more for their health insurance than comparable nonsmokers, a figure likely to rise to 50% as provided for under Obamacare as companies try to avoid unhealthy clients, suggests the Associated Press

Those advocating Medicare means testing – forcing some to pay more simply because they earn more – should instead consider responsibility testing, an established technique which is fairer and would slash the costs of Medicare, not just shift them

Smoking “rots the brain,” and "smoking doesn't just age your lungs, it damages your brain too," according to a major new study which showed that smoking for even a few years can cause a significant decline in cognitive functions.

Surveys show that many Americans are confused about Obamacare, and recent examples suggest that the media may be contributing to the confusion, at least with regard to the smoker 50% surcharge provisions of the Affordable Care Act [ACA] - Expert

The Libertarian Party's candidate called for Washington to protect smokers from companies which are charging them more for their health insurance – just as smokers have long been charged more for life insurance, – on Fox News Sunday morning.

Regulations just proposed to implement the Affordable Care Act to incorporate a 50% surcharge on employees and family members who smoke, and the hope by some nicotine addicts to escape by sitting through a smoking cessation class may go up in smoke,

"60% of Firms to Kill Health Insurance, Charge More under Obamacare," says a headline designed to dramatize the impact the Affordable Care Act [ACA] may have on small business owners -- but there's an alternative even for small business owners

Corporate Counsel, a legal publication, has warned that the Affordable Care Act [ACA] sanctions charging smokers 50% more for health insurance than nonsmokers, and that some corporations are going further and declining to hire smokers at all.

More companies are moving to charge smokers up to 50% more for health insurance under the ACA, even if the employers can't afford the expense of having a qualified "wellness program" as they must with regard to other health factors such as obesity.

A nail salon in Georgia added a five dollar surcharge to a customer's bill because she was obese, and it's all perfectly legal, and apparently part of a growing trend as we learn more about how much obesity costs everyone, says law professor