anae nares ntvcabl . TTEL ci enn. - U oun page 6 - June 15, 1977 - North Shore News Attorney-General Garde Gardom's year-round roadblocks. designed te turn drinking drivers into thinking drivers, remind one of motherhgod before they invented the Pill. A number of my convivial friends are now looking at before getting into trouble. On party nights and other social occasions the answer is: not very far -- especially if you're thin or ‘undersized. The ‘safest solution to the problem of drinking and driving, of course, is to learn to drink neat orange juice and pretend it's spiked with vodka. The taste will be exactly the same,.and the price considerabl: lower. For those who insist on living dangerously, however, there's the blood level table issued by the B.C. Alcohol and Drug Commission, and reproduced below. The auth- ors stress, by the way, that it's only a guide,- not a guarantee. According to your weight, the table tells you how many drinks will put vou over the .08 level and automatically qualify vou for a night in the slammer, a three-figure fine and a three-month. suspen- sion if you run into one of Mr. Gardom’s sniff squads on the way home. FAT DRIVERS WIN As you'll notice right away. incidentally, it’s the fat drivers who are going to have most of.teh fun in this new roadblock age. But, if you tip the scales at around a mere 100 Ibs, you'd better open an account with a taxi company without delay -- or else resign yourself to solitary drinking in your den. . SAIL 74 then +5341 AA a %s4 all WV fiat tit (a@uis GOCE 7 ici you at a glance is how to pace your tippling, if you hope to remain on the right side of the law once you get behind the wheel again. So -- as a public -service -- Uncle George went to work on the figures with his pocket calculator in order:to find out .exactly what they. mean in the case of the typical 150 Ib. good guy who likes ‘‘just a couple" ‘Cutting through all the decimal points, I discovered that ‘‘just a couple” BODY WEIGHT | | 2 100 Ib. .043 = .087 125 Ib. .034 = .069 150 tb. .029 — .058 175 Ib. .025 — .050 200 lb. .022 = .043 225 Ib. .019 = .039 250 tb. .017 = .035 to. 3 4° 5 1300 .174 217 103.139 .173 087 116.145 075 100.125 065 .087 —.108 058 .078 097 052.070 .087 One drink means 1'% oz. of hard liquor; or 3 oz. of wine (unfortified); or one 12 oz. bottle of beer. Count 1% oz. of over-proof rum, or one martini or manhattan, as two drinks. For each hour after the first (i.e.. beginning two hours’ after you start drinking) subtract .015. Handcraft House spring sale 10 of our workshops. 110 W. Esplanade, - | North Vancouver ° Ln en chargex and mastorcharge acceptea their cars and wondering just how far the two of them can go iS quite’ literally what it boils down. SALE ENDS THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 18. Everything in the store discounted vy atey 30% Stock up now for | knitting and weaving projects. Phone or drop by for a class list summer 988-6912 The nub of the problem is the length of time it takes for | alcohol ti disappear from your bloodstream -- anything from one and a half to three hours for each single drink. Two gins or whiskies. or two glasses of wine, or two bottles of beer will give our 150 Ib. friend a level of .058, which is about the most he should risk. Just one more for the road and he'll hit a definitely unlawful .087 -- which means he'll then have to hang around with an empty glass -for at least a further two hours before he’s back to a reading of .057 DINING-OUT DANGERS Go on for yet another drink and the only answer -- if vou haven't the price of a cab on vou -- is to walk home or bed down for the night where you are. After just four’ fill-ups vou ll need at least four or five completely dry hours before you have a hope of passing the balloon test. All fein of which can make out 2 eanciAorahly u wees tues irl F greater hazard than a couple of snorters at a friend's or in a bar. Candlelight and wine evenings for many otherwise 1, aw -ahidinga ate au sseiiig ¢ CiIZeNnsS may easily include half a bottle of Chateau Plonk per head -- and that's four drinks right off the bat. Add an aperitif while ‘studying the menu, plus a civilized liqueur with your coffee. and by 10:30 p.m. you'll be floating on cloud .174 or higher. In fact, it will be almost dawn _ before you're fit to finger your ignition keys. These examples, mark you, all presuppose that you start with a clean slate, so to speak -- your arteries free from any taint of aicohol at the time vou begin. Hence, a special word of warning for that endangered species, the expense-account lunch crowd. A couple of noon-hour drinks won't be completely eliminated from our 150 lb executive's system until 5S p.m. at the earliest -- an he'd also better remember that a martini or a manhattan counts as two drinks. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 summer week long 684 W. Broadwa i) ues New 26 Solid State Console 26 ONSOLE Sys axi 100 <4) T.V ™