RE: smoking in the stand
This is gonna turn into a "better than you" topic, but I can't count the times I had to put one out to kill a deer. I'm not much of a bowhunter but I do some. Don't seem to matter. I smoke, chew, dip and have never found it to be a problem. Yes I have some wallhangers. Some with bow some with gun. I live in a heavily congested area . They hear horns honking, sirens, cars, dogwalkers pass by every minute. My circumstance might not be the same as yours. Now I don't smoke "the good stuff", but we had a deer as a pet when I was a kid and he would eat a cig evertime you gave him one.
Good Luck. Capt Brad.