Plenty of ashtrays still around in bars and casinos - and even though they're rare to see inside of homes, they ain't all that rare in backyards or on front por

Plenty of ashtrays still around in bars and casinos - and even though they're rare to see inside of homes, they ain't all that rare in backyards or on front porches. Of course, rarely are they ever so ornate as the wonderful examples in the article; if anything they nowadays seem designed to stand out as little as possible. My dad, toward the end of his life, was a heavy-enough smoker that an ashtray on the porch was insufficient. His solution? Fill an empty milk jug partway with water and drop butts into that.