Non-smoker finds picture of himself on cigarette packets...taken during operation for back problem
Non-smoker finds picture of himself on cigarette packets...taken during operation for back problem
A PATIENT from A Coruña (Galicia) has filed a formal complaint about his photo whilst in the operating theatre being used on cigarette packets without his permission.
The plaintiff, identified only by his initials of F.J.T.A., said his operation at Santiago de Compostela hospital was not even for a smoking-related condition – he was having a titanium plate fitted in his spine due to back problems.
According to the 54-year-old from Boiro (A Coruña), he noticed a picture of himself with an oxygen tube on the front of cigarette packets and loose rolling tobacco of 'several different brands' – but he had not realised before as he does not smoke.
The text beneath his photo reads: “Smoking can cause embolisms and disability.”
And his is not the first case of this type – a woman recently complained that a photo of her husband, taken without his permission whilst he was in hospital in Barcelona, had appeared on cigarette packets.
