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Alcohol consumption
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What determines whether a person is more capable of taking in booze than the next one? Does this mean people need a different dose of anaesthetic to put them under?
If so maybe our drink driving laws are too general and do not cope with the individual..
If so maybe our drink driving laws are too general and do not cope with the individual..
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The drink driving law is too general.
I can take more booze than my friends (this is not a boast but fact).
An aquaintance if mine who is an anaesthetist had the pleasure of puttigng me under some time ago and he told me it took a bit extra to get the desired effect.
It may be to do with size. I am 6ft 4 and a bit hefty.
I can take more booze than my friends (this is not a boast but fact).
An aquaintance if mine who is an anaesthetist had the pleasure of puttigng me under some time ago and he told me it took a bit extra to get the desired effect.
It may be to do with size. I am 6ft 4 and a bit hefty.
Your size is why the drink drive laws relate to alcohol per volume of blood or breath or urine
Specifically 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood, or 35 microgrammes per 100 millitres of breath or 107mg per 100 ml of urine.
In that sense the cope roughly with the individual.
It's true that the ability to cope with any intoxicant varies between individuals but that's difficult to measure directly and objectively.
Consequently you pick a level that's generally safe for the majority.
You have to balance the severe consequences of having incapable drivers on the road (deaths injuries and accidents) with the rather minor benefits of allowing some drinking and driving (pub industry).
Specifically 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood, or 35 microgrammes per 100 millitres of breath or 107mg per 100 ml of urine.
In that sense the cope roughly with the individual.
It's true that the ability to cope with any intoxicant varies between individuals but that's difficult to measure directly and objectively.
Consequently you pick a level that's generally safe for the majority.
You have to balance the severe consequences of having incapable drivers on the road (deaths injuries and accidents) with the rather minor benefits of allowing some drinking and driving (pub industry).
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