"I hope you quit smoking," he told a fellow attendee, according to audio played Monday by CNN.
After the man said he smokes "sometimes," Obama said he chews Nicorette nicotine gum and that "I haven`t had a cigarette in probably six years."
He then jokes: "That` because I`m scared of my wife."
Michelle Obama previously said that Obama quit smoking sometime around 2010.
Obama: `I quit smoking because I`m scared of my wife` - VIDEO
24 September 2013
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President Obama said on an open microphone at the U.N. General Assembly Monday that he quit smoking six years ago "because I`m afraid of my wife."
