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(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n
Barred from restaurants, banned on airplanes and unwelcome in workplaces across America, smokers have become accustomed to hiding their habits. So it\u2019s no surprise many may now also be denying their habit when they buy health coverage from the federal health law\u2019s insurance exchanges.<\/p>\n
Insurers \u2014 who can charge higher rates in most states to admitted smokers \u2014 are steamed.<\/p>\n
They say the cheating that smokers do to escape tobacco surcharges on their monthly premiums means higher rates for everyone else.<\/p>\n
Signs of smokers\u2019 deceit:<\/p>\n
\u2014 In Idaho, 17 percent of adults smoke regularly, a federal survey<\/a> shows, but fewer than 3 percent who bought coverage this year on the state\u2019s insurance exchange paid the tobacco surcharge. Read article here….<\/a><\/p>\n Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n
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