John Kiriakou, who has served in the CIA for 15 years, recounted his years leading counterterrorism operations in Pakistan.

The sudden exposure to smoke, toxic gases, and fine particulate matter has left the elderly, children, pregnant women, and those with chronic respiratory or cardiac illnesses struggling to cope.

Go back just over 150 years, and you find the person at the front and centre of one of the world’s biggest drug empires wasn’t a cartel or street thugs in South America but a queen.