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From: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Radars? Why not breath analyzers?
Message-ID: <951@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 08:49:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 08:49:30 1984
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Reply-To: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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A Few Problems with Breath Analyzers you may not have heard about:
I found them in a long-ago article in one of my father's technical journals.
(He's a dentist.)  A breath analyzer will over-report blood alcohol for people
with:
	cavities (not fillings but dental decay) which soak up alcohol and
keep it in the mouth long after it has passed out of the bloodstream

	dentures or partials - same problem

So if you get nailed by a breath analyzer--and you don't think you were all
that drunk, visit your  dentist the next day --and then have him give a statement to
your lawyer.

--Lee Gold