By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 00:49 EST, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 08:54 EST, 24 September 2013 President Obama was caught on a live microphone Monday telling a United Nations official that he hasn't smoked in six years because he's scared of his wife. 'I haven't had a cigarette in probably six years,' Obama was overhead telling Maina Kiai at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. 'That's because I'm scared of my wife,' he added with a grin. Scroll down for video In this grab from a CNN video, U.N. official Maina Kiai (left) says 'Sometimes' when asked by President Obama whether he has stopped smoking
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President Obama made the remarks to United Nations official Maina Kiai at the U.N. General Assembly gathering in New York
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The remarks were recorded on a live microphone and aired on CNN
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Michelle Obama has given a different date for when Obama stopped smoking, telling reporters in 2011 that her husband had stopped smoking nearly a year earlier'It's been almost a year,' she told reporters February 2011.
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