Yep, among other crappy changes we just found out to our insurance, starting in 2014, as supervisors employed at UPS, we will have to pay $150 a month pre-tax if we or a spouse who is also enrolled in United Healthcare through UPS uses: tobacco products such as: cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing or dipping tobacco, snuff, tobacco packets, hoohak tobacco, and liquid nicotine for electronic cigarettes ("e-cigarettes). We just found out and have until July 1st 2013 (two days) to quit to avoid the charge starting Jan 1st 2014, or take the "Quit for Life" program any time after that and stop all "tobacco product" use. I have used my e-cig for about two years now, have converted over a dozen supervisors into vapors, and now we are going to be punished for our "poor lifestyle choices, including tobacco use". We have to notify our health care provider of our tobacco use status, and if we define ourselves as non-tobacco users and are caught/reported using it, we can be found "subject to discipline, up to and including termination of coverage under the plan (health insurance) or termination of employment with UPS where permitted by law." Yep, those damn e-cigs are "harmful to health and contribute to the rising costs of health care."
