My Daughter Smokes, By Alice Walker

My Daughter Smokes" is a short story written by Alice Walker. Walker tells us about her experiences and knowledge with cigarettes, the effects it had on her father, sister and self, and relating them to her daughter's problem with smoking. Furthermore Walker touches on history, describing her father's terrible death due to cigarettes and also a brief description of the history of tobacco. In reference to her past experience with smoking and in an attempt to prevent a reoccurrence of these bygone events, Walker strives to convince her daughter to quit. “My Daughter Smokes” is in part an exploration of the politics of smoking and the pain of watching your child inhale toxins and carcinogens.
At first, Walker talks us through her eye witness account