Is there anything that masks alcohol from your breath?

[RABid]

Most states have adopted .8 as the new limit. Not sure if that translates across other countries on the same scale.

[Tedster]

I'm in a pretty good position, at least gig wise...our main roadie drives to most of the gigs...he's got the truck...(swell, huh?)...and he doesn't touch nary a drop of alcohol. I ride with him to the gigs...so I'm relatively free to have a few.

[Brian T]

Yeah....that's it. The lame authorities have it in for the civil rights of drunks everywhere and are just trying to make some extra dough. Because a particular person thinks they "honestly drive "better" drunk", and that people are good to go at .08 blood/alchohol means the whole world would be a better place if everybody could drive around at .08, since that's a "retardedly" low standard. Gimme a break. The term "rationalization" doesn't even do that justice. I *want* to drink and drive so that *must* be OK. Excellent logic. Is it possible alchohol affects various people differently? Is it possible (actually factual) that alchohol hits women harder than men, based on physiology and the different way the genders metabolize? Maybe certain people really are OK to drive at .08. Is that supposed to mean everybody is? Not. Yeah, the authorities are only trying to give people needless grief and make a buck. They're really not bothered by the 15,000 to 17,000 people who die in car wrecks every year where a drunk driver was to blame. It's just one more example of the lame U.S. government hassling innocent drunks/drug addicts who are only trying to have a good time. Facts be damned, it's their *RIGHT* to drive drunk. I mean, they're not really drunk. They've just been drinking a little/some/a lot/massively......just fill in the blank. Tell that to the dead people. Regards, Brian T

[strat0124]

Brian....tell us what you really think!!! :) Seriously, if people in this country would take responsibility for their own actions, you wouldn't need "morality laws" like those mentioned here. I don't think its right to drive drunk, but in my 45 minute commute every morning, one way, I see 1000% more crazy driving because of cell phones and folks in large vehicles driving like a bat out of hell, than I have every seen on the road at four in the morning, where supposedly all the drunks are. I've driven drunk, impaired, and blind before......I don't do that anymore....maybe legally impaired to the equivelant of somebody on daytime cold medicine, but its ludicrous to say gender/weight/and any other physiology has no bearing on how a substance affects you. Sorry...my wife could drink two drinks and NO way I'd let her drive, I can drink the same two and basically feel little difference. Impaired legally you might say? About as impaired as coming back from a two hour workout at the gym....... ...or getting a flu shot ...giving blood just my couple of devalued pesos.......

[jackpine]

Just to be clear, if you got to .8 you'd be dead. The number is .08 jim

[Brian T]

Thanks. (Shhhhh), just so I don't look like an idiot, I'm editing my earlier post. Brian T

[bvdd]

SPANISH (REDSKIN) PEANUTS. One mouthful, chew very slowly and completely without swallowing, take long deep breaths through your nose as you chew. The more you chew and breathe deeply without swallowing .. the more it slams booze breath. No joke.

[henrysb3]

Alcohol is one drug that appears to have wide-ranging differences in its effects. Chorus, phase, echoplex, you know. Actually, you probably know those who drink a lot and seem not to get drunk and those who can barely touch it. A couple of the guys in my college frat could seemingly get just a whif of booze and they were gone, sick drunk. I, of course, had a more manly demeaner. I remember in late '67 I got hit from the rear by a drunk woman who the cops estimate was going 90mph to my 30 - 40. It just about totalled my new Dart. Since then, I harbor special feelings about those who follow too close and those who drink out of control then drive. I was undoubtedly drunk, too, as we had down several pitchers before taking off. The officers didn't ask any of us to walk a straight line, even though there was quite a collection of liquor bottles on the floor of the front seat of her car. Beer was legal for 18 yr. olds in Kansas then, and we surely smelled of it. I have no idea what the blood alcohol was then but I think it was .10. I heard that the Navy developed a series of imparement tests that involve reaction times and coordination instead of chemical analysis. Does anybody know about it? Next to speeding, I think that tailgating, which might be called attempted speeding, is one of the most dangerous behaviors on the road. It's also one that seems to get ingnored by law inforcement, probably because it may be harder to prove absent video recordings. Radar and breathilizer results are much more concrete in court.