During October the government run the ‘Stoptober’ campaign to encourage people to give up smoking. This year for the first time it is promoting e-cigarettes as a viable way of quitting. It comes after e-cigarettes proved the most popular...

The popularity of vaping has been growing rapidly as the number and selec­tion of products expands at a rate of knots. But this has led to a number of incidents where the lithium-ion batteries used to power the devices have failed. These...