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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

According to VapingDaily, whether taking combusted smoke into your lungs or vapor, there are
going to be some serious health implications that come along with it. The health implications of smoking
are a lot more defined and outlined then with vaping in the long term. Here’s a summary of the most
common health implications found by researchers for both smoking and vaping. The process of smoking
includes the combustion of tobacco which includes thousands of chemicals, 20+ of which have a strong
connection to causing cancer many of the chemicals have a strong connection to some leading health
conditions, including; cancer, heart disease and lung disease. You will not find these chemical elements
during the process of creating a cigarette. The combustion of the tobacco leaf starts the process of
chemical reactions, which in turn creates smoke that is full of the previously mentioned carcinogens.
(Cancer.org, 2018)

The main process of vaping removes the need to combust anything, removing a handful of the
harmless chemicals listed above. Studies on the vapor produced from vaping suggest there is a
significant difference between the number of carcinogens found compared to cigarette smoke. Any
other chemicals found are mostly related to the process of flavoring. Many of which are found to be
food grade and typically safe to consume. Overall, these flavorings are designed to be ingested and not
vaporized. That leads us to a gray area so far. The long-term effects are just not known.
(Ecigalternative.com, 2019).

According Vape360, every discussion of vaping should include a comparison with smoking.
That’s because most vapers were smokers, and if not for vaping, most vapers would still be smokers. On
top of that, if vaping survives the huge challenges to its very existence, millions of would-be smokers will
be diverted from cigarette addiction by low-risk nicotine alternatives like e-cigarettes. But when it comes
to actual science, far too few studies employ a direct comparison between vaping and smoking. That’s
probably because studies are done largely by people in the tobacco control field, and most of them want
to see total elimination of all nicotine use. So if a paper compares, say, carcinogenic compounds in
smoke and vapor, the results will show that smoke contains vastly larger quantities of the things that
cause cancer. And pointing that out doesn’t serve the cause of abstinence very well. However,
comparing vapor to clean air makes vapor look bad.

Most people are familiar with cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer kills most
(but not all) lung cancer victims are smokers. It is a particularly brutal form of cancer. However, smoking
can cause many other kinds of cancer too, because cancers can form not just in areas that have contact
with the smoke, but also rom smoke byproducts in the bloodstream and organs. According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in the
body.
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Mahogany St., Rabe Subd., Visayan Village
Tagum City, Davao del Norte. Philippines
Tel Fax (084) 655 – 6971 Email: inf o@tagumdoctors.edu.ph