Before moving from strict liability issues, two further points should be noted. First, the strict liability standard does not entail that producers are accountable for every injury caused by their products. Manufacturers are not liable when consumer negligence causes the injury. Manufacturers are also exempt if the product cannot be proven to be defective. "Defective" is under¬stood as unreasonably dangerous in normal use. This brings us to a second concluding point. Some products are inherently dangerous and thus might rea¬sonably be expected to cause injury. In such a case, inherently dangerous prod¬ucts are not defective and thus manufacturers cannot be held liable for injuries they cause. Something like this argument has, so far, exempted most cigarette and handgun manufacturers from strict liability for the harms regularly caused by their products. Of course, these manufacturers can still be held liable for any negligence in the design or marketing of their products. The major settlements between tobacco companies and individual states in recent years, for example, has focused mostly on the actions of the companies in marketing their prod¬ucts. We will look at these issues in more detail in chapter 9.