Harry Guerrilla
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If I were an occational smoker and only did once a month, I wouldn't list myself as a smoker. Is that lying? Depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as the logic that a smoker is someone who smokes a pack or more a day, then no you aren't a smoker.
If that is what is needed to get by that, then that's what will happen. I do know for a fact that the lungs of a once a month smoker is not going to look like a 3-pack a day smoker. People will have to make the judgement for themselves and suffer the consequences if they are wrong.
These questionnaires don't ask "Tobacco User (more than x amount of tobacco a day) Yes/No."
They just simply ask, "Tobacco User, Yes/No.
Answering honestly, you'd say yes.
Even if it weren't detectable.
And that is why I said I didn't discount everything you said because it is a fact binge drinking CAN cause problems. But again, I think the prevailing factor is that smoking is easier to detect. Is that wrong? yes. but how would you test for that within a cost reason?
Much like I think is compeltely stupid that someone that smokes pot maybe once a month can fail a drug test yet all the cocaine and heroine user has to do is quit in a shorter amount of time and not get nabbed.
I think there are ways to detect excessive alcohol consumption, liver damage and enzyme tests.
That kind of stuff.
Basically though, they should just ask and require a higher premium for those who answer honestly, with reimbursement from those answer dishonestly (if discovered).