Overall, 42.6% of respondents reported that at least one of the ten brands would be less harmful than other brands
travelling bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toiletry bags, knapsacks and backpacks, handbags, shopping bags, wallets, purses, map cases, cigarette cases, tobacco pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle cases, jewellery boxes, powder cases, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanized fibre or paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper
Among these were several toxic metals such as cadmium, arsenic, chromium, beryllium, and manganese
The settlement follows the October 2018 ruling by federal district judge for the Southern District of New York finding that FedExs conduct over many years for customers with such names as Cigarettes Direct To You established without the need for a trial that FedEx had knowingly violated a federal anti-cigarette trafficking statute and a 2006 Assurance of Compliance with the New York Attorney Generals Office in which, to avoid prosecution, FedEx expressly agreed to cease residential cigarette deliveries and comply with a New York law prohibiting those deliveries
