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When a pub customer in England protested at the television channel being changed while he was watching a cricket match, and protested by lighting a cigarette, bar staff pressed a panic button, and within a few minutes six riot police stormed the premises, while another two waited outside.

A police spokesman said: "They explained why he should not be smoking, asked him to leave and he did so happily."

While I can see that it would take a team of eight riot police to deal with such a serious, life threatening incident, and I pay tribute to our brave bobbies for their bravery in unflinchingly facing the dangers of a whiff of second hand smoke with complete disregard to their own elfnsafety, pity those who are threatened with the vastly greater hazard that stalks our land, striking fear into the hearts of all who come before it, jeopardizing the sanity of the bravest among us.......

The spokesbitch for the anti-smoking campaign group ASH!

After Jeremy Clarkson and his co-presenters on the BBC TVs Top Gear lit up Porche pipes containing herbal tobacco during the filming of the show in an aircraft hanger, Amanda Sandford from ASH, positively smoking with indignation, said;

"It was a blatant breach of the law and the BBC should offer an immediate apology that acknowledges what they have done.

"I understand it was meant to be a light hearted part of the programme but it does not excuse the fact that they were flouting the law.

"It is inappropriate to have people smoking and breaking the law as blatantly as they did.

"The law is designed to stop people from smoking exposure in workplaces such as the television studio where the incident took place."

Needless to say the police didn't send the riot squad round to save us all from her bleating.

They were too scared.


Link to ASH - Requires sound. Turn it up!!! :)


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