flowerbug
Garden Master
I suspect that you don't remember that post offices had both "ash units" with some sand in them for snuffing out cigarettes but ... spittoons for those who chewed. The post office and hotel lobbies seemed to be the last locations with these sorts of receptacles. Of course, smokers were very casual with their butts. I remember wondering how long it would take, with the banning of smoking from markets, before smokers would stop dropping their butts on the floor and stepping on them.
in the south there were plops and spits from chew and smokers inside the stores. it didn't matter if there were ashtrays or whatever provided...
as for up here, yes, they have bins outside the doors for butts.