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To you and yours . . . special Yuletide joys:
For the patronage shown us, sincere thanks.
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This is the festive season all
right -- but it's also a time of year
when the number of alcohol-
related automobile accidents
increases significantly. For the
people involved, there's nothing
much to celebrate.
The most obvious way drivers
can avoid becoming a holiday
season statistic is not to drink at
all. But it would be churlish -- not
to mention Scrooge-like -- to
suggest that as a course of action.
The alternative is moderation.
And if you have more than two or
three drinks -- forget about
driving. That amount of alcohol
will impair your ability to handle a
car -- the breathalyzer test will
confirm that fact. And there's no
way you can beat the breath-
alyzer, or refuse to submit to it if
you're actually inside the car and
a policeman thinks you've had
more than enough to drink.
By refusing to mix drinking
with driving, you protect not only
yourself, your family and friends,
but the other driver as well. This
is a pretty sobering thought in
itself when you consider that
more than 50 per cent of auto
accidents involve alcohol. Even
so, there are still victims who are
completely innocent.
The drinking driver and his car
form a potentially suicidal -- or
homicidal -- combination.
Not only that, but there's
nothing y ou can really do to
defuse alcohol's effects on your
system. Dr. Edward Sellers,
head of the. Addiction Research
Foundation's intensive care unit,
points out that no amount of black.
coffee or splashings of cold water
will improve the situation.
The only thing that will do the
trick, he says, is time spent in
bed, in an armchair -- or just
about anywhere but in a driver's
seat.
And if you're hosting a party,
says Sellers, you have an unques-
tionable responsibility to your
guests. If you think they're
incapable of driving tell them.
They won't like it, but they'll be
thankful in the morning. So be
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firm: take the overboozed
partygoer's car keys -- and put
him into a taxi, or put him up for
the night. That way, he'll have a
better chance of being invited
back to your place next year.
How much is enough? It's
difficult to say, but in general it
takes the body about one hour to
process one ounce of alcohol.
While two drinks can move you
close to the legal definition of
impairment -- blood alcohol con-
centration of .08 as measured by
breathalyzer tests -- some people
can be quite unfit to drive before
that stage.
Such factors as body weight,
drinking on an empty stomach, or
drinking on one that contains
chemicals such as tranquilizers,
cold remedies, antihistamines,
sleeping pills, codeine or other
strong analgesics, all play a part.
As Dr. Sellers says, you
shouldn't mix drink with drugs
anyway. Adding the two of them
to driving is just asking for
serious trouble.
So, as you celebrate the holiday
season, learn when to say
"when." If you can't, then at
least remember -- for your own
and other people's sakes -- none
for the road.
T.B. looks
for new
answers
What controls the growth of
cold germs? Does the sex of the
TB germ affect its activities? How
do lungs try to clear out particles
in cigarette smoke?
Such research topics are under
investigation by scientists whose
work is supported by contribut-
ions to Christmas. Seals. This year
over 300,000 in medical research
was allocated by national
provincial and local TBRD• Assoc.
One of the projects will try to
discover how newborn lungs
function differently from adult
lungs. Such information may help
prevent the thousands of deaths
every year of infants who have
underdeveloped lungs. Another
project will investigate how blood
clots not only block arteries in the
lungs but also cause the air
passages to narrow. Finding ways
to open these passages can help
facilitate breathing and keep
patients alive. ,
The effects of cigarette smoke,
industrial metals like beryllium,
fungus infections, and other
assulters of the lungs will be
studied in other projects. WayS to
stimulate the lungs' defenses
against assaults will be examined
closely. ,
In addition to Christmas Seal
research grants, another $2
•million in contributions supports
fellowships, faculty positions, and
other programs designed to find
out more about lung disease and
ways to prevent it.
4,
T t,,ONIPANV SINCE 1889
W.W.Cousins, Manager
Listowel, Ontario
8--THE BRUSSELS POST, DECEMBER 25 , 1974
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