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Help Please; need a little info for a story
Topic Started: Mar 1 2005, 09:41 PM (218 Views)
Dr.Livvy
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okay... I'm working on a story where I want a character to suffer from alcohol poisoning (they live, but one of those angsty close calls that's so great for really getting a story in motion). about how much would do it? (I'd prefer the number in terms of bottles of vodka, the normal size ones (smirnoff, about the size of a bottle of wine, maybe a tad bigger)


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That would depend on a lot factors: gender, weight, how long they're drinking for, etc. If you're talking about vodka, one drink would be 1.5 oz of 80 proof. The number of drinks that would take depends on those things. If someone gets up to .40, they can die. It still depends on individual traits though...
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female, 5'4" and for weight... no more than maybe 120lbs? (probably less, but not sure, and not good at guessing. this would be so much easier if the individual in question were an original character... then accuracy could be thrown out the window!)


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For that weight, I'd say it would probably take about 7 drinks to get to about .30. Who's the individual in question?
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for females they have lower alchol resistance or whatever so it takes less drinks for them to get drunk, alcohol poisoning, etc...I think I have it written down somewhere, but you should be able to find out by googling it
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^Yeah I agree with that but it doesn't apply for all women really... It depends. I know some women of about 5'2" who can take a LOT. But if we're talking in general, then yeah. Small women usually don't resist THAT much...
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5'4" isn't that small.
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