I was wondering the same thing until it got answered. People do things different everywhere. Doesn't mean it's wrong, just different. Some of the things I do when hunting would make people shake their heads. I always hear people taking about eliminating their scent. I don't worry about it, I even smoke in the stand. The way I look at it is, my truck has a scent to it, my camp is full of bacon smell in the morning and booze and smoking goes on at the camp all the time. Those smells are in my cloths and blowing down wind so I don't worry about having the odd smoke. I just position my stands so it has the least effect. I have one stand in a travel way, it is about 30 feet in the air. I have never spooked a deer or moose while in that stand and I can drop rocks on some of them.
