Been smoking since I was nineteen (bout a year and a half, now) and I've smoked outside from pretty much the beginning, and only from friends do I take any crap, but it's friendly crap, of course. Actually, no, I've had two people react negatively to my pipe, one I call "the bitch," who felt I should leave the area that I had been occupying for some ten minutes already because of "children," and the other was a guy who pointed out that I was smoking under a no smoking sign. I laughed and he left in a huff.
But mostly I get compliments and approving looks, though who knows how many people assume I'm just standing up to "the pigs" and smoking reefer.