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hard liquor A popular term for beverages with a high–often > 30% by volume–ie, 60 proof alcohol content–eg, gin, rum, vodka, whiskey; HLs are preferred by alcoholics as a steady state of low-level inebriation is easier to
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Where people in other recession-riddled countries like Russia and Argentina are switching to hard liquor to console themselves, the Japanese are turning to sex. Beer drinkers scored again in another study that showed that wine and hard liquor cause a rise in blood homocysteine levels. Women who drink regularly may cut their risk of breast cancer by cutting back on beer, wine, or hard liquor. |
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