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[quote=Anonymous]A bottle of wine is 5 standard glasses. The evening that you have described, from starting the grill to finishing cleaning the kitchen while the kids are put to bed is three or three-plus hours. So that's just over 1.5 glasses of wine per hour. Assuming that your husband weighs 170 lbs, and he doesn't suffer from liver dysfunction, his liver is processing about 1 glass per hour. Based on that body weight, he would be legal to drive in Virginia after a bottle of wine in three hours. Not advised, but legal. (BAC of ~ .069) If he weighs more, or takes longer to finish the bottle, that blood alcohol level will be lower. Of course, there are a ton of variables - what he has had to eat, heath issues, other medication, etc. But this isn't 'lush' territory.

I'm not saying it isn't a problem - it's a problem if for no other reason than that you see it as a problem, but a little perspective is good. That level of intoxication is about the same as a 130 pound woman drinking 3 glasses of wine over the same three hours. Two glasses of wine a night is the generally recommended maximum for men. Wine (alcohol in general) has some heart health benefits, but increases some cancer risks. So he is drinking more than recommended, but probably less than many - certainty lass than any previous generation of men.  [/quote]

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