"Michael A. Terrell" on Mon, 08 Oct 2012
10:00:45 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Stormin Mormon wrote:

Yes, alcohol is vasodialator. I wonder why drunken Eskimos don't have this
problem? They just know to stay drunk indoors?


It's WHERE they drink. Think about it. It's below freezing, for
water but not for alcohol. You take a swig of whiskey, and that hits
your stomach. The cold spreads quickly through your guts, including
your lungs which are already dealing with the low temperatures.

It also has to do with the fact that whiskey doesn't freeze until
it get really, really cold. So you think "It can't be that cold, it
still sloshes". Yep. and it is now extremely well 'chilled' Five,
ten, twenty degrees of frost?
"Over the lips,
over the gums
Look out stomach
-- oh damn, your throat just froze!"
And frostbite of the mouth, palate, tongue, and the dangly bit in the
back of your mouth - is not pleasant.

Indoors, at or near room temperature alcohol doesn't have that effect
but some fools think of whiskey as 'human antifreeze'. Then they die.
--
pyotr
Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And
you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the
question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers
does it take to change a lightbulb.