Suspicious...

[Mr Happy]

Anyone else thinking there may be more to this than 'Smoking Ban Kills'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6919403.stm

For a start, did he really ask people who were smoking in a courtyard, hence outside, to stop smoking?

Black people, guns, community influence 2+2+2 = drugs!

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

Anyone else thinking there may be more to this than 'Smoking Ban Kills'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6919403.stm

For a start, did he really ask people who were smoking in a courtyard, hence outside, to stop smoking?

Black people, guns, community influence 2+2+2 = drugs!

You are jumping to conclusions H. The courtyard was covered, therefore, if there were 2 or more walls to it, it would be covered by the ban (in the same way bus shelters are).

Also, why might it not be to do with smoking? There is a lot of resentment out there over this new law - quite conceivably it could cause tempers to flare, and, if a gun is available . . . . who knows what 'might' happen?

[Barman]

Anyone else thinking there may be more to this than 'Smoking Ban Kills'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6919403.stm

For a start, did he really ask people who were smoking in a courtyard, hence outside, to stop smoking?

Black people, guns, community influence 2+2+2 = drugs!

You are jumping to conclusions H. The courtyard was covered, therefore, if there were 2 or more walls to it, it would be covered by the ban (in the same way bus shelters are).

Also, why might it not be to do with smoking? There is a lot of resentment out there over this new law - quite conceivably it could cause tempers to flare, and, if a gun is available . . . . who knows what 'might' happen?

I think we all do now...

[Mr Happy]

Just my cynical mind.  All too convenient for it to be related to a law that the media want to ridicule.

Officers from Operation Trident, the Scotland Yard team tackling black-on-black gun crime, are appealing for witnesses.

Have they not set up a smokers on non-smokers team yet?  What does it matter what colour they are, murder is murder.  They are appealing for witnesses other than those that heard him ask them to put the tabs out and heard them say i'll shoot you for asking me to put the tabs out?

Although Mr Oyebola is employed as a bouncer in another nightclub in the capital, he is thought to have been off-duty at the time.

Drugs, drugs, drugs!

You mark my words, 3 months from now there will be 2 column inches dedicated to a trial in which some scrag pleads guilty due to mitigating circumstances, nicotine withdrawal symptoms.  The Police will provide evidence showing that scrag was drug runner for dead man.  Scrag will get 2 years playing pool, let out after 4 days for good behaviour.

[GROWLER]

I witnessed first hand last thursday my first instance of 'smoke rage.' 
Smoker smoking OUTSIDE a service bay cleaning cars. Non smoker (ex smoker i found out later...typical ey  ) INSIDE the service bay objecting to the smell of said fag drifting in.
Words were exchanged, tempers rose rapidly with the pair of them screaming and f'in and blinding at the top of their voices at each other.
It was actually quite scary to witness and listen to tbh. I was convinced it was going to end up with a punch up, but the boss intervened when he heard the rackett.
The ex smoking geezer was spouting off about 'the smoking ban law' and how he has a right now to not have to smell 2nd hand smoke.
Completely over the top imo.

I sense many more instances like this are going to become common place.
As usual, our poxy government have NOT thought this out properly and we the public are going to have to face and witness forthcoming violent flare ups as the winter arrives I fear.

[Misunderstood]

I think there is an object lesson here for us all, if only we could understand it.

When smoking was banned in Ireland, Scotland and Wales there was predictions of wholesale civil unrest due in most part to the half-civilised rascals that populated those Empire outposts.  Indeed the whole point of the exercise was to take the unruly mob one at a time and pave the way for England.

Problem was I barely heard a whimper from any of these rebellious territories and the dust was settling nicely on what I took to be a gross intrusion into civil liberties until England started.

It started with short tempers and verbal punch-ups and slipped down the slope rapidly to murder and accompanied with the promise of more to come.

Why has the contrast been so vast between different parts of the same island?

[Snoopy]

I think there is an object lesson here for us all, if only we could understand it.

When smoking was banned in Ireland, Scotland and Wales there was predictions of wholesale civil unrest due in most part to the half-civilised rascals that populated those Empire outposts.  Indeed the whole point of the exercise was to take the unruly mob one at a time and pave the way for England.

Problem was I barely heard a whimper from any of these rebellious territories and the dust was settling nicely on what I took to be a gross intrusion into civil liberties until England started.

It started with short tempers and verbal punch-ups and slipped down the slope rapidly to murder and accompanied with the promise of more to come.

Why has the contrast been so vast between different parts of the same island?

Perhaps because so many of us English became fed up with life in England and moved ourselves, our families and our good manners out to other places.