We're all just a slip of the steering wheel away from instant death on the roads. This is just an unfortunate fact of life. Do the car manufacturers "need to be punished" every time someone screws up?

What about the alcohol manufacturers, who knowingly sell you an addictive substance that impairs your driving, damages your brain, causes some people to use extreme violence, and causes fetal alcohol syndrome in babies. My gosh, what could be worse.

The shampoo example is ridiculous. Why would someone put HCL in a shampoo? Shampoos are basic, and acid would neutralize the base and result in something like colored water.

Anyway, my argument is not exactly what you stated. Rather, I was pointing out that there is a difference between direct responsibility and responsibility once removed. When you start blaming those who are indirectly responsible for an accident of whatever sort, you are opening up the field to a much vaster field of targets for rapacious lawyers. There has to be a limit, realistically speaking, or society would grind to a halt.

Now as for coffee: cripplingly dangerous? A clear public health issue? Ridiculous, even if you're just being semi-humorous at this point.