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Electronic cigarettes were available by the end of the last century. They looked very much like ordinary cigarettes.

It wasn't until a few years later that vape pipes appeared and these allowed the use of e-juices. Funnily enough, although the vape application looked nothing like a cigarette with it's bulky looking tank, we're coming full circle now with some of the latest models back to being slim.

The main difference of course is that cigarettes simply consist of dried and treated tobacco leaf. And with a vape, there is no tobacco at all, and certainly no smoke.

Those cloud puffs you will see coming from someone vaping is water vapour impregnated with whatever flavour you desire'

For someone that partakes of neither habit, it's clearly that as a passive participant, it's so much better to get away from stale tobacco.

Stale tobacco ingrains itself into all clothes and soft furnishings. It's particularly annoying to buy a second-hand car and quickly discovering the previous owner clearly used to smoke in it.

An old car salesman once told me that he would have to offer a discount on smoker's cars he might be trying to sell. Doubtless today, there are some chemicals that can hide the problem now.

Vaping doesn't envelope soft material in the same way. And lets face it, if a heavy tobacco user washes their tobacco clothing, there will doubtless still be a distant stale aroma.

One of the few new shops opening on the high streets of Britain are, like my local electronic cigarette shop London.

These shops have sprung up throughout the UK and there are now an estimated two thousand of them. It seems that this has fully met the present demand so not so many extra ones are still opening.

But they have been an extraordinary business model that bucks the trend of other types of retail outlets that continue to close with alarming regularity.