What Do You Know About Alcohol?

Alcohol has been used as a medicine.

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Alcohol is digested in the same way that food is digested.

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Moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages is generally not harmful to the body.

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An estimated 85% of the adult Americans who drink are alcohol abusers.

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Alcoholic beverages do not provide weight-increasing calories.

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A blood alcohol concentration of .10% is the legal definition of alcohol intoxication in most states with respect to driving.

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Alcohol is not a drug.

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Approximately 10% of fatal highway accidents are alcohol-related.

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Eating while drinking slows the absorption of alcohol in the body.

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It takes about as many hours as the number of beers drunk for the liver to completely burn up the alcohol ingested.

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