Describe the author’s feeling about her father

At first, Walker talks about her eye witness of her father's addiction with cigarettes. She speaks about how he used to smoke Camels, the same kind her daughter smokes. Also that he used to even roll his own cigarettes before all the big companies came about. Her father became so unhealthy from smoking that he had to stop every couple times to breathe while going up the stairs. Eventually it became so bad that the "self-poisoning" ended and he died.