Anger as dad’s ‘picture’ on tobacco packet

A GRIEVING daughter claims a gruesome photo of her dying father was featured on a tobacco packet without his permission.

Jodi Charles, 42, was horrified when she saw the image on a friend’s pack of Amber Leaf tobacco.

The mother of two said she was “110%” sure the photo shows her father David Ross, who died in 2015 aged 66. The picture, which depicts an unconscious man with a breathing tube in his mouth, appears beneath the warning “Smoking causes strokes and disability”.

Although he was a smoker, the former ambulance driver died of unrelated bone marrow problems, septicaemia and lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. He spent 10 months at Basildon University Hospital, Essex, after being admitted in 2014 and was on life support three times.