I think it does matter. You did a good job of pulling the crux of the article out and proving why the headline and the first two sentences were inconsistent with the real story.
Then these “journalists” wonder why their papers are going under and they are unemployed.
It wouldn’t have mattered if the woman was inside eating celery sticks with this other man. This drunken jealous idiot would have assaulted him anyway.
She probably rejected him months ago.
Who would blame her?
Even if the smoking wasn't the "cause" of the Ahole acting like an Ahole, there are far, far too many instances of smokers actually being attacked for just being a smoker and the media needs to finally acknowledge that simple fact ---- considering how complicit the media was in forcing the smokers to be outside to begin with.