California, Age 21 for Nicotine/Tobacco: A Near-Term Fiscal Analysis Based on the Projected Reductions in Low Birth Weight and Premature Births.

In the first five years of this policy, health care cost savings solely from preventing prematurity and low birth weight exceeds $102,000,000 of which $82,000,000 is Medi-Cal Savings, which easily surpasses the tobacco tax revenue loss of $74,000,000…