Safe and Responsible Driving
What effect does drinking coffee or eating food have on your blood alcohol concentration?
- ○It quickly reduces your BAC to a safe driving level
- ✓It has no effect on how fast alcohol leaves your body; only time reduces BAC
- ○It halves your BAC within thirty minutes
- ○It speeds up elimination only if you also drink water
Correct answer
It has no effect on how fast alcohol leaves your body; only time reduces BAC
Only time reduces blood alcohol concentration. Coffee, food, water or exercise do not speed up the elimination of alcohol from the body.
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