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The Guardian - UK
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John Terry left spluttering over anti-smoking ad

Indian Gold Flake packet with image allegedly resembling John Terry
Burning usue: an Indian Gold Flake packet with an image allegedly resembling John Terry. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/EPA

England football captain John Terry is rarely in a position to take the high moral ground when it comes to his public image, but this time his complaints might be justified. An image of diseased lungs has been superimposed on what is allegedly a blurred image of the non-smoking star and plastered all over Gold Flake cigarette packets in India. It's all part of a government anti-smoking campaign, and the Daily Star reports that Terry is furious. "The image has been used without our consent or knowlege," said a spokesman for Elite Management, which manages the footballer. No word on what the owner of the lungs thought.

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