You smoking right in front of a no smoking sign well characterizes your spirit.
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That sign is a legal instrument. It's not written in proper English but rather it's written in sign, which renders it a pictorial image in fact.
It cannot be read because in the legal realm that is classed as something called a word mark, and word marks are all made up of images and a de-based bastardized SIGN-language pretending to be that of a properly codified language (ie: English).
All signs in society that's touched by the legal jurisdiction was created according to the Sara Witty principle, whom Walt Disney used extensively in their comics. The sign's message is an assumption, just like everything else in this legal jurisdiction is an assumption of "law".
The image does not stipulate a no smoking zone, but rather that in itself is assumed. Even if they pull up legislation on the matter, they still cannot prove that the word mark/sign/image can be read as a normal written language. When we admit that we can read images, then it renders us lost at sea, confused.