Short messages on Alcohol/Drugs/substance use from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
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Alcohol burns off at a precise rate. Despite what many people believe, there is no way to speed up this process. Coffee may make you more alert, but it will not get rid of the alcohol that is still in your body.
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It takes around 11 hours for 3 pints of strong beer or 3 large glasses of wine to leave your system – so you can still be over the drink drive limit the next day.
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Drink driving carries penalties of 6 months imprisonment, a £5000 fine and a 3-year driving ban. Killing someone through careless driving is 14 years imprisonment.
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One unit of alcohol is ½ a pint of 4% beer, one small pub measure of spirits or ⅔ of a small glass of 12.5% wine. Men should drink no more than 4 units a day, women 3.
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A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup of tar in a year. Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and can cause cancer.
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