I am a smoker that actually smokes very very little compared to most (an average of just two packs a month), but I do smoke.

I might actually disregard a non-smoking sign that is out in the open. The open air is ventilated well enough for smoking not be a problem, so I view those signs as unreasonable unless even a single cigarette could be a fire hazard like at a gas station or I don't know what.

This doesn't mean that I don't care about my buds thought and I would never put them out on the ground and not dispose of them in a proper way.

I often take hikes in nature and as counterproductive and contradictory as it might be, I sometimes smoke a cigarette or two when I'm out in nature. But my backpack always has an old facial cream box to store the buds as it closes really well so I don't end up smelling like an ashtray but still get to carry away my buds instead of throwing them away there.

I use something like this one: