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Martini, Straight Up

Apparently trying to figure out how to drink booze without leaving breath odors, some Finnish girls have come up with a ...well... unique way to imbibe. Tapio Jaakkola, the executive director of the Irti Huumeista drug and alcohol center in Helsinki, says girls are dipping tampons in vodka to absorb the alcohol into their bloodstreams from ...um... down under. Does it work? Jaakkola didn’t say. “Drinking through the mouth is probably still the best way for alcohol to be absorbed,” he offered. (Reuters) ...If a barfly says she can drink you under the table, she may not be kidding.


Publication Date: 7 March 1999

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