Name: Miguel Camesa

Year and Section: 10-3

FINAL CONSTRUCTIVE SPEECH

Proposition: Resolved, Vaping should be legalized in the Philippines.

Side: Affirmative Focus: Necessity

I believe that legalizing vaping is necessary in the Philippines because of the following: Firstly, it

can help people quit smoking. The second reason is that vaping is a way to ingest tobacco a lot

more safely compared to smoking. And my final reason is that it creates jobs for people,

reduces health care costs, and in the long run, helps the economy.

Allow me to elaborate, vape and cigarettes both deliver nicotine, right? So, people may start

asking me like: “So how does vaping help people stop smoking when it also delivers the same

thing cigarettes do?”, and you’re right. But what you fail to consider is how much nicotine gets

delivered. The website called “The Fog Works” states that 1 milliliter of vape juice is equal to

100 puffs, and 100 puffs are equivalent to about 10 cigarettes meaning that 2 milliliters of vape

juice is equal to roughly about 1 pack of cigarettes. In simpler terms, vaping delivers a lot less

nicotine as compared to smoking. Also, the website of LSBU states that vaping is also less

addictive than cigarettes. With that being said, people can use vape to quit smoking since

before you take out the nicotine completely, you just lessen its amount until you get used to

that. Once you do, it should be easier to straight up stop vaping.

My second point states how vaping makes it safer to take in nicotine. Let me explain how this

is. According to the website “Vaping Facts”, Cigarettes emit nicotine through burning tobacco

which also creates numerous harmful toxins that can damage your lungs. Meanwhile vape

delivers its nicotine much more safely by using e-liquid. It heats up this liquid then once you

inhale it, you ingest the nicotine. This relates a lot to my first point since vape is safer, its better

than cigarettes and thus, aids people in quitting smoking. Lastly, not only does it help the

smokers stop smoking or maybe even taking nicotine products, it also reduces the cases of

people getting sick from second hand smoking since the lesser cigarettes your exposed to

means lesser sicknesses will be contracted.

My third and final point is that the vaping industry helps the economy. It helps because the

whole making-selling-buying process of vape, just like any industry, creates jobs for people and

it also gives business another option to thrive on so that they can profit more. According to

ProCon.org, a psychiatrist named Sally Satel said that promoting e-cigarettes to smokers should

be a priority. Especially considering the fact that smoking health care costs are about $130

billion per year and getting smokers to switch won’t only save money but it would also save

lives. Also, economist J. Scott Moody stated that the harm reduction from people who switch

from smoking to vaping could save up to $48 Billion in Medicaid spending.

In conclusion, I believe that legalizing vaping is necessary due to 1, the impact it could have on

smokers and how it could contribute to help them quit smoking. 2, how much lives it can truly

save and the impact it has even on non-smokers. And lastly, its impact on the economy and
unemployment. Let me end with one quote that summarizes why I decided to look into all of

this: “Whenever you burn a cigarette, your life burns with it.”. Thank you all for listening.

References: https://vapingfacts.health.nz/vaping-vs-smoking/,

https://www.procon.org/headlines/is-vaping-with-e-cigarettes-safe/,

https://www.thefogworks.co.uk/blogs/blog/how-many-vape-puffs-are-equal-to-a-cigarette

https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/world-first-research-finds-vaping-likely-to-be-less-

addictive-than-smoking#:~:text=World%2Dfirst%20research%20finds%20vaping%20likely

%20to%20be%20less%20addictive%20than%20smoking,-The%20study%20by&text=New

%20research%20has%20found%20vaping,to%20spend%20on%20e%2Dcigarettes.