ABSTRACT
The vast experiments on workers in diverse workplaces have counterparts in the wide world of consumer products and in the overlapping worlds of the highway and the broad environment. Efforts to deal through law with injuries caused by these experiments have included safety legislation and legislative proposals aimed at compensation, and lawsuits seeking payment for injury–the latter sometimes generating collisions between private law and safety legislation. In the statistics of illness and death, perhaps the most quantitatively important products in the categories of products literally consumed or involving direct contact are tobacco products, principally cigarettes. Asbestos has produced an enormous reservoir of the illness caused by substances to which people are exposed in both the workplace and the broader consumer environment. The chapter discusses experiments with products that are inhaled, ingested, or implanted and with products that create risks in the arena of streets and highways.
