years ago when Megan Piper was in college, she went to Colorado with her family to visit

her grandparents.

My grandfather, whenever we would go to visit, he'd spend a lot of time looking at the

tomatoes, checking on the tomatoes, being out back in the garage, and I just figured

he was tinkering or doing whatever he was doing.

But on this visit, Megan remembers standing in the kitchen and seeing her grandfather

outside through the window.

I just happened to be watching him again.

He was out with the tomato plants, and I looked and I thought, I think that's a cigarette

in his hand.

And he had it way down by his side, and that's when it all clicked.

What he was doing out there was smoking.

And I had no idea.

I was 21, and I finally realized that my grandfather had been a smoker for my entire life.

And in fact, he'd been a smoker since he had been in the army in World War II.

They used to get free cigarettes.

Megan says smoking was a source of shame for her grandfather.

This is an example of someone who is well-educated, strong religious beliefs, and yet was dealing

with an addiction that he just couldn't handle on his own.

He struggled his whole life with this, struggled his whole life with the guilt around the fact

that he was using tobacco.

And that has really helped me think about people who smoke, people who vape, people

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