The Untoward Effects of Cigarettes and Drugs: Some Reflections on Enterprise Liability

The Tendency of cigarettes to cause cancer in some people has become increasingly recognized. Drugs, many of them useful and valuable, sometimes have serious, even fatal, side effects for a few people. The possible liability of the maker of such a product to its occasional hapless victim under currently developing tort doctrines presents interesting questions concerning what Professor Ehrenzweig has felicitously called enterprise liability, and its proper limits