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Smokers Texas Life Insurance Rates

Is there a way for me to have a lower Texas smoker life insurance rates than the average rates for smokers?

Antoinette

El Paso, Texas

 

We know a smoker’s life insurance almost always doesn’t come at a cheaper rate due to the risk brought by smoking. Anything that increases your risk of death will definitely increase the cost of your life insurance. Smoking is no exemption.

However, there are some life insurance companies that offer lower smoker life insurance rates than the average rate. There are niche insurance companies that specialize in cigar and tobacco smokers. Some of these even offer smokers’ life insurance coverage at non-smoker rates!

There are niche life insurance companies who take into consideration your every details so that they could give you the proper life insurance rates that really fit you, your lifestyle and your budget. Even if you smoke smoke cigars, pipes, cigarettes or just chew tobacco, you could still find yourself eligible for cheap smoker life insurance rates. They even consider the type of tobacco products you have consumed in detailing your life insurance quote.

The length of period since the last time you have smoked or quit smoking even matters to them. The longer this period, the cheaper your rates will go. Most insurance companies often require that you have stopped smoking for at least two years before you can purchase a life insurance at a nonsmoker price.

Furthermore, if you have purchased a Texas life insurance at a smokers rate and you have stopped smoking, you cannot just immediately ask your insurance provider to lower your rate. Contract-wise, this is impossible. You have to continue to pay the smokers rate for the whole duration of your insurance as it is the rate that was agreed upon when you purchased it.

However, with the niche insurance companies specializing on smokers, you can even possibly get nonsmoker rates even if you are just social or occasional smoker. There are available search tools online that gathers smoker life insurance rates from various life insurance companies so that you will have a lot of quotes to choose from. This will help you make a sound decision in choosing your life insurance policy.

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Smokers Term Life Insurance

Readers Question?

Can I get Low Term Life Insurance rates if I am a smoker ?

Tom

Austin, Texas

Great Question.

All term life insurance companies but a select few will offer smoker rates regardless if you smoke cigarettes, cigars, chew tobacco, or nicorette gum etc. The few term life insurance companies that will offer non-smoker rates to alternate tobacco users other than cigarettes can save you 50%-100% in cost. Some are aggressive to the extent where Preferred Plus and Preferred non-smoker rates are available as long as you medically qualify. The life insurance industry views your health habits as a key factor in determining your cardiovascular risk.

Apart from quitting (which is quite obvious), you have to make sure you’re not overweight. That will make your rate unbearably high. Therefore, do your utmost to get down to the right weight for your height, age and sex.

Something that is important to stop is smoking. Smoking is something that is found mostly in the physical itself. Insurance companies do recognize “smokers” and “non-smokers”, and they understand there are people out there who have quit. By quitting smoking, you can request another physical to show the company that you have indeed stopped smoking. By quitting smoking, your risk is lowered, and your term life insurance rates will easily improve.

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