Did You Know?- Legal drinking age - the minimum age one must be to drink alcohol. In most countries this is 16 or 18, but there are notable exceptions such as China, which has no minimum drinking age and the United States, where the minimum drinking age is 21.
- Breathalyser or breathalyzer - a device for estimating blood alcohol content BAC from a breath sample. Breathalyzer is the brand name of one manufacturer of these instruments, but has become a generic trademark for all such instruments. Intoxilyzer, Alcosensor, Alcoscan, and BAC Datamaster are other common brand names.
- Beer goggles - a slang term for a phenomenon in which one's consumption of alcohol makes physically unattractive people appear beautiful.
- Vehicle for hire - a vehicle providing public transportation, which transports one or more passengers between locations of the passengers' choice.
- Designated driver - a person in a group of people intending to drink alcoholic beverages who promises to remain sober in order to safely drive the drinking persons home afterwards.
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