Too silly even for the silly season

I took a call from a local radio station yesterday.

"Hi Simon, hope you have ten minutes in the morning for a radio interview.

"We've been contacted by a listener who's upset about someone smoking outside a shop."

It was a toy shop, apparently, and the smoker was a member of staff.

Oh, and he/she was smoking not in the doorway but “seven yards” from the entrance.

The producer wanted me and someone from ASH to “discuss” this for ten minutes.

A few hours later they called back. The item was being dropped in favour of some “breaking news”.

Goodness, what could beat the story of a someone smoking outside a shop?

Nurse!