Reader question:

I bought a life insurance policy for a really good price about…three years ago, I guess? It’s a term policy with thirty years on it. Anyway, I was really happy about the great rates I got, but now my friend has turned me onto cigars, and I’ve begun smoking them regularly. Do I have to get Oklahoma smoker life insurance quotes and higher rates? Will my benefits be given out if I don’t?

James

Thanks for asking, James.

Oklahoma smoker life insurance quotes are indeed something to be scared of. Smokers often pay two to three times the amount people with standard policies pay, and even if you quit smoking, it takes years before life insurance companies stop taking your former smoking habits into account when rating your policy. If you are a smoker and apply for life insurance but don’t tell the company that you smoker, then if you die in the first two years of your policy and they come to find out you were a smoker, you can have your benefits either completely denied or only partially given out.

However, Oklahoma smoker life insurance quotes are an entirely different matter in your situation. Although it may seem like kind of a weird double standard that life insurance companies will punish people who quit smoking 4 years ago, but not people who start smoking heavily the day after they purchase their policy, that’s just how it is. The life insurance companies are more concerned with smokers who smoked before they bought insurance, but if you start afterwards then you are scot free. You might have a harder time renewing and getting good premiums if you don’t kick the habit, though.

take care,

Fashun