UNDER-16s will will no longer be able to buy energy drinks, but there’s no reason adults can’t continue to enjoy them responsibly as part of a high-caffeine diet. Here’s how.

Don’t energy drink and drive

Ask a friend to confiscate your keys if you’re sitting there twitching like a squirrel on speed. Driving after 15 Monsters may feel like you’re playing Grand Theft Auto , but strangely under UK law manslaughter charges aren’t dropped once you’re six blocks away.

Never combine energy drinks with alcohol

The social cost of Red Bull concoctions can be seen in any British nightclub, as gaggles of shrieking, wired, extremely pissed women babble like maniacs. Men may mistake this for vivacity, or even flirtation, but will soon realise it’s impossible to get a word of sense out of them, if

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