Cloud Chasing: A Comparative Study on the Usage of

Cigarettes and Electronic Cigarettes in Terms

of Cost and Health Risks/Benefits

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Philippine History in

College of Informatics and Computing Sciences

AGUILERA, Rone Jean G.

FALLURIN, Jhon Louie F.

LAROZA, Victor Ralph R.

ORDONEZ, Ken Angelo V.

PEREZ, David R.

May 2019

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researchers would like to show their gratitude to the following individuals for

sharing their pearls of wisdom and providing us with the support we needed during the

course of this research.

To the Philippine History teacher, Julie Ann Sarmiento for the help and guidance

she bestowed upon the researches in doing the research paper by teaching the correct way

and proper steps we needed to take in order to make the research paper.

To the authors, editors, and researchers for literature and studies that was used to

gain key information in making the first and second chapter of our research papers.

To the respondents for giving their precious time and effort to answer the online

questionnaires.

To the researchers families for providing their unconditional love and support

throughout the time of the research project.

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 DEDICATION

The researcher would like to dedicate the research study entitled: Cloud Chasing:

A Comparative Study on the Usage of Electronic Cigarettes and Cigarettes in Terms of

Cost, Health Risks and Benefits to the following:

To Batangas State University, may this serve as a future reference for future

researchers of the school.

To smokers, may this serve as a guide on how you plan to quite on smoking and

move on to vaping

To vapers, may this serve as a motivation to continue to stop smoking and move

on to a safer alternative

To vape shop owners, may this serve as a guide on future vapers so that they will

be briefed on what is smoking vs. vaping.

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 ABSTRACT

Cigarettes are one of the products that have a negative impact on our health. It

harms every organ in the body, causes many diseases, and reduces the health of smokers

in general. Smokers develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer. This led to the

production of non-tobacco device that is thought to be a safe and harmless method of

smoking by replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, and flavoured air.

This non-tobacco was called the Electronic Cigarette which is being used now by a large

scale of people. This has been used as an alternative to the traditional smoking, and has

led many smokers to cut off their cigarette and settle for a safer way of satisfying their

nicotine cravings. Thus, this comparative study was conducted, with the intention of

determining the risk and health hazard of smoking both cigarettes and electronic

cigarettes to the body to raise awareness and to promote the application of preventive

measures. A questionnaire was administered to the online community to gather necessary

data, thought which it was concluded that: (1) Smoking is associated with a number of

very serious health risks; (2) Smoking also has benefits which are lowering the risk of

knee-replacement surgery, Parkinson’s disease, obesity, death after some heart attacks;

(3) Smokers save more by using electronic cigarettes; (4) Smokers agree that vaping has

changed their life; (5) Vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes because smoking is

associated with a number of very serious health risks

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE i

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii

DEDICATION iii

ABSTRACT iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS v

LIST OF FIGURES vii

LIST OF GRAPHS vii

Chapter I: The Background and its Setting 1

Introduction 1

Statement of the Problem 1

Conceptual Framework 2

Scope and Limitation 2

Significance of the Study 3

Chapter II: Review of Related Literature 4

Research Literature 4

Synthesis 31

Hypothesis 32

Definition of Terminologies 33

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Chapter III: Methodology 36

Research Design 36

Sampling Design and Technique 36

Respondents of the Study 36

Data Gathering Instruments 37

Data Gathering Procedure 37

Statistical Treatment of Data 38

Chapter IV: Interpretation and Presentation of Data 39

Chapter V: Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation 46

Summary 46

Conclusion 49

Recommendation 50

Bibliography 51

APPENDICES 52

Letter 52

Online Questionnaire 52

Documentation 55

Curriculum Vitae 57

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LIST OF FIGURES

1.0 Conceptual Framework 2

2.0 Data Gathering Procedure 37

LIST OF GRAPHS

1.1 Refraining to smoke cigarettes again when you started vaping? 39

1.2 Felt much more active when you moved onto vaping? 40

1.3 Refuse to be tempted to smoke again when you see a person smoking? 41

1.4 Did you stop smoking after switching to vaping? 42

1.5 Are you satisfied that vaping is cheaper than smoking cigarettes? 43

1.6 Do you feel more accepted in society that you are not carrying the

scent of a cigarette? 44

1.7 Are you happy that you had quit smoking? 45

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