Former US President, Barack Obama has admitted how he smoked up to eight or nine cigarettes a day due to stress of being president, and how his daughter Malia caught him in the act, making him to stop.
Obama revealed this in a in his forthcoming memoir, giving some behind the scenes glimpses of his life in the White House including problems in his marriage and how the stress of the job increased his smoking habit. The 768-page tome, entitled ‘A Promised Land’ and out on November 17, focuses on Obama’s early political career through his first term in the White House but the book also features some human interest stories, including the former president’s struggle to quit smoking. Read also:Â Malia Obama And her Boyfriend All Loved Up In New Photos
Obama admits that he would sometimes smoke eight or nine or ten cigarettes a day and look for a ‘discreet location to grab an evening smoke,’ in the memoir, a copy of which was obtained by CNN. He credits his eldest daughter Malia with getting him to quit, writing she frowned at him after smelling a cigarette on his breath. He then noted that he ceaselessly chewed nicotine gum to stop.
