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English footballer Terry plans legal action against Indian cigarette maker
England football captain John Terry is seeking advice on legal action after blurred images resembling him have appeared on cigarette packets in India, according to reports appearing in the British media on Tuesday.
The cigarette packets, which belong to a prominent tobacco company, have a health warning saying “smoking kills” above which appears the blurred picture of a person who closely resembles Terry, claim his pulicists.
The issue has already snowballed into a controversy involving Elite Management, a company which manages Terry’s publicity affairs, the cigarette company in question and the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) of the Government of India.
An Elite Management spokesperson has told the British media Tuesday in a statement: “It’s been brought to our attention that an image of our client (Terry) has been used on some cigarette packaging without our consent or knowledge. We’ve now instructed our legal team to investigate this matter.”
The DAVP’s additional secretary KS Dhatwalia has been quoted here as telling an Indian newspaper: “We sent the creative to the health ministry and they then cleared it and circulated it. But how Terry’s picture got to be used is not clear.” Terry’s publicists still have no idea how the image has appeared on the packets.
England football captain John Terry is seeking advice on legal action after blurred images resembling him have appeared on cigarette packets in India, according to reports appearing in the British media on Tuesday.
The cigarette packets, which belong to a prominent tobacco company, have a health warning saying “smoking kills” above which appears the blurred picture of a person who closely resembles Terry, claim his pulicists.
The issue has already snowballed into a controversy involving Elite Management, a company which manages Terry’s publicity affairs, the cigarette company in question and the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) of the Government of India.
An Elite Management spokesperson has told the British media Tuesday in a statement: “It’s been brought to our attention that an image of our client (Terry) has been used on some cigarette packaging without our consent or knowledge. We’ve now instructed our legal team to investigate this matter.”
The DAVP’s additional secretary KS Dhatwalia has been quoted here as telling an Indian newspaper: “We sent the creative to the health ministry and they then cleared it and circulated it. But how Terry’s picture got to be used is not clear.” Terry’s publicists still have no idea how the image has appeared on the packets.
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