In a unanimous decision yesterday, Sao Paulo’s 7th Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeals vacated , the judgment of the court of 1st instance that had found in favour of the indemnification claim brought by the Association for the Defense of the Health of Smokers ("ADESF") against the Brazilian cigarette manufacturers Souza Cruz, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, and Philip Morris Brasil,a subsidiary of Philip Morris International. ADESF sought indemnification for "all the consumers of defendant's products" for moral and material damages attributed to tobacco, in addition to having the manufacturers include in their packaging the warning already imposed by the ministry of health in 1999.