You’re 26 years old and have a 12 year old kid?…Anyways, I wouldn’t worry about the cigarette smell or needing to wash and re-dye traps after catches at all. I’d just flick that cigarette butt as far away from a set as possible though.

For bedding your traps with the center D ring, I would make sure the bottom of the bed has a half inch’ish of soft dirt/sand that you can press the trap down into. It’ll bed solid then.

I have all my coil spring traps in a big tangled ball full of dirt and grime and rust from trapping last year. The day before season starts I’ll untangle the mess and set them the next day. Guaranteed to have animals bouncing around in them the following morning!