

Augustus explains that he does not actually light the cigarette. Hazel is disgusted by this and yells at him saying that he's already got cancer and he wants to pay money for more cancer. When everything seems to be going well, Augustus pulls out a cigarette and puts it between his lips. They meet after the support group and begin to talk. Augustus is at the meeting to support Isaac, his friend who has eye cancer. At one meeting, Hazel meets a 17-year-old boy currently in remission named Augustus Waters, whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his right leg. Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, attends a cancer patient support group at her mother's behest.
