Woster: Growing up with cigarettes and their smoke all around

Woster: Growing up with cigarettes and their smoke all around

I grew up during a time when many, many people had a smoking habit, but I never knew anyone whose habit was as unusual as my dad’s. I never developed the habit, although I confess I thought it was way cool when James Dean and other young movie stars were seen with cigarettes in their mouths or packs rolled up in their T-shirt sleeves. Obviously, it wasn’t cool at all. That stunning surgeon general’s report linking cigarette smoking to lung cance…