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Did the Cigarette manufacturer want government to remove gory pictorial warning?
16 Jan, 2012A RTI query has indicated that Philip Morris, manufacturers of Marlboro brand of Cigarette, wanted the Union health ministry to change pictoral warnings on tobacco packs that was claimed to bear a close resemblance to English footballer, John Terry. A letter was reportedly sent to the ministry on 3rd November, 2011 just before the new pictorial health warnings were to be implemented on all tobacco packages wherein Philip Morris asked the ministry to remove the image to avoid confusion. The ministry informed Philip Morris that the pictorial warning were mere sketches and do not relate to any person living or dead.