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Question:How much can I drink and still drive?
Answer:The rate at which alcohol is removed from the body is constant for each person, and nothing can increase this rate, thus once alcohol is present in your blood stream, it will remain there until the appropriate period of time has passed, no matter what tricks you try to make yourself sober quickly. The blood alcohol level depends greatly on your weight. In smaller people there is less body for the alcohol to be spread around, and so the levels for the same number of drinks tend to be higher. Fat does not help dilute alcohol very much, so a very obese person may have a much higher blood alcohol level than a person of the same weight who is all muscle and no fat. Only a very rough guide to the amount of alcohol that is safe to drink can be given. Men may be able to consume three standard drinks in one hour to reach .05, and then one standard drink per hour thereafter to stay at that level. These figures should be reduced by lh for women. A standard drink is 250 mL of beer, 120 mL of wine, 60 mL of port or sherry and 30 mL of any spirit.
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