Lawyers for the Chelsea player threatened to take legal action earlier this year after they discovered that a blurry photograph showing a man closely resembling the 31-year-old was being used on cigarette packets for an anti-smoking campaign.
While continuing to deny that the image was of Terry, Indian health officials now say that a decision has been made to replace it with another image.
A senior official from India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare told an Indian newspaper: “The picture could be of any man. It is only the fertile imagination of some who see Terry in it.
“However, the controversy has been an unseemly one, and so we are looking at a fresh set of warnings.”
In the picture, Terry appears topless with a mock sketch showing his lungs heavily tarred above a banner that reads:“Smoking Kills.”
The image was approved for release by the Indian health ministry last year after being supplied by the government’s Directorate of Visual Publicity.
Terry’s rep, Keith Cousins, said at the time: “We have reviewed this matter with our client and have instructed solicitors to take appropriate action.”
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