You do have a valid point, Ken but what's next, penalizing people  
because they're overweight?  Yes, I think we'll be at that point  
soon.  And then what's next, charging higher premiums for group  
members with disabilities because they incur higher costs?

Kat

On 12 Mar 2006, at 20:42, ken barber wrote:

> just to stir the pudding a little. yes, there is
> privacy rights, but then should employers have to pay
> higher insurance rates for what someone decides to do
> at their home? one might have to give up some rights
> to keep from trampling on the rights of employers to
> not hire someone who is going to drive up his cost of
> doing business. stir it up just a bit.
>
> --- Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> You mean susceptible, don't you?   And yes, some
>> people are more
>> likely to get lung cancers than others, but remember
>> that it's not
>> all genetics or all environmental causes.  It's a
>> combination of the
>> two and very hard to predict.
>>
>> My mother died of a fast-killing lung disease - not
>> cancer - that was
>> likely related to her working with toxious chemicals
>> when working for
>> the film industry in Hollywood in the 1940s and
>> 1950s.  She did
>> smoke, but doctors didn't think her disease was
>> triggered by the
>> smoking.  My opinion is, it might not have been the
>> direct cause but
>> it certainly didn't help her any.
>>
>> I myself smoked for seven years but I never smoked
>> more than a half a
>> pack a day and found it very easy to quit and it's
>> been almost 30
>> years since I quit.  I don't like eating in
>> restaurants that still
>> have smoking sections, and I think it's fine to
>> outlaw smoking in
>> public places, but I don't think anyone has any
>> right to tell smokers
>> they can't smoke in the privacy of their own homes.
>>
>> Kat
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 Mar 2006, at 15:23, Anthony Arnold wrote:
>>
>>> This is a real good question that Kathy Jo brought
>> up, are some
>>> people more
>>> acceptable for developing lung cancer than others
>> are?  For
>>> example, my
>>> Grandpa smoked for over 60 years, and never really
>> had any major
>>> health
>>> problems according to my knowledge.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anthony
>>> Visit my website at www.anthonyarnold.net
>>
>
>
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