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In states that allow tobacco surcharges, tobacco users pay substantially higher premiums for nongroup health insurance than nonusers. Smokers living in states with high tobacco surcharges are less likely to have health insurance. What This Study Adds
- Women and Smoking: The Effect of Gender on the Epidemiology, Health ...
Although the prevalence of smoking is somewhat greater among...
- Women and Smoking: The Effect of Gender on the Epidemiology, Health ...
Using data from the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examined the effect of tobacco surcharges on insurance coverage and smoking cessation in the first year of marketplace implementation, among adults most likely to purchase insurance from state marketplaces.
6 Νοε 2023 · Evidence on the impact of state policies limiting tobacco surcharges is limited. This study aims to examine the association between state tobacco surcharge policies and individuals’ health insurance enrollment, health care utilization, and smoking cessation behaviors.
Some states have set more restrictive limits on rating for tobacco use, and several states have outlawed tobacco premium surcharges altogether. We examined the impact of state level tobacco surcharge policy on health insurance enrollment decisions among smokers.
Although the prevalence of smoking is somewhat greater among men than women, women may have a higher risk of smoking-related morbidity and mortality, and face different barriers to smoking cessation that warrant intervention.
30 Μαΐ 2017 · However, for those who live without a partner, smoking has a negative impact on perceived health care cost coverage, that is being a daily smoker decreases perceived health care cost coverage by 2.15 and 2.33 units for women and men, respectively.
1 Ιουλ 2016 · Relative to smokers who faced no surcharges, smokers facing medium or high surcharges had significantly reduced coverage (reductions of 4.3 percentage points and 11.6 percentage points,...