We mustn't forget that this is still a story in a newspaper. No one has been fined or even stopped from smoking in their own homes.
The council received a complaint, and are quite rightly investigating it.
I presume it was the two smokers who went to the press with the story. They might be quite happy if it turns out the council's enquiry reveals that infact their house is made out of straw, and could have been huffed, and puffed, and blown over by any passing evil wolf.
