Ultimately, President Obama had one reason to quit smoking:
his daughters.
In an interview with iVillage, first lady Michelle Obama
said her husband decided to finally kick the habit because he didn't want to
tell daughters Malia and Sasha not to smoke while he still puffed on the
occasional cigarette or two.
"They are at the age now where you can't hide, it's
clear," the first lady said in the interview, sitting in her East Wing
office with her feet kicked up on the couch. "He would have to start
having those conversations because we discuss all the time ... we talk about
drugs. We talk about sex. We talk about smoking. We talk about it all."
She said that when the topic turns to smoking, "we're
very clear. It's not good for you. It's addictive," and that the president
used himself as an example.
"But I think he didn't want to look his girls in the
eye and tell them that they shouldn't do something that he was still
doing," she said. "So they played an important role in him finally
saying, 'I've gotta get this done' ... he credits them with that."
The first lady said that it's important for her and the
president to be "honest and open" about their imperfections with
their daughters, to show "we're not perfect adults."
The sit-down with the Internet site comes on the heels of
other lighthearted interviews with the Obamas — including with People magazine
and on "Entertainment Tonight" — aimed at highlighting their
relatability. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll shows that Obama leads Romney
by 35 points — 58-23 — on the question of who's more likable.
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