It didn’t seem that long ago that vaping was almost viewed as wholesome. It was certainly touted as a safer alternative to cigarettes and a way to give up smoking. But now people are starting to die. Eight people in the US have reportedly died from vaping and 530 people have developed vaping-related pneumonia. And the figures are rising surely and steadily. In fact, I had to update the death and illness numbers twice while editing Lorraine Martin and James Reihill’s article on why so many countries are banning e-cigarettes. Last week, India became the latest country to ban these products, and with more than 1,500 flavours being sold, their clear appeal to young people is now also coming in for closer attention.

Of course, eight deaths pales into insignificance when compared with the 8m people who are killed by tobacco each year. It was the right thing to do to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship at sporting events. Yet one insalubrious habit has been replaced by another. Big Tobacco has merely given way to Big Gambling.

And as Thomas Cook collapses, some 150,000 holidaymakers stranded overseas will have to repatriated. While the ATOL system covers those who booked package holidays, it has never been tested on this scale before. In some good news, having sex in older age is good for you. A new study shows that people who have more sex in their golden years are also less likely to suffer from mental and physical ailments than their less sexually active peers.

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