Is this blood-alcohol wrong?!
Is this blood-alcohol wrong?
According to this BAC, if I had 4 oz of 80 proof tequila over the course of one hour, my blood-alcohol content would be over 0.5% (I'm 107 lbs) which is near death. That couldn't be right, could it?
Additional Details13 hours ago
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http://www.globalrph.com/bac.cgi...
13 hours ago
No, it says 0.5%, check it yourself. I've gotten different numbers on other calculators, but this one has me scared to drink. I just want half a cup of tequila with diet coke, that's all.
Answers:
It sounds very wrong - especially because someone seems to have claimed that they can calculate someone's blood alcohol based simply on alcohol consumed and weight. Everyone processes alcohol differently, and even the same person will give different results on different days when consuming the same amount of alcohol over the same time period. As I understand it, the only way to know for sure is to measure blood alcohol content. And 0.5% is a crazy-high number - could it have been 0.05%?