I feel really stupid about asking this question for every reason possible.
Can smelling alcohol get a person "drunk"?
2006-11-04 12:46:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Surprisingly, theoretically, you COULD.
Alcohol can be absorb not just via digestive track, but also via inhalation track. It would be obviously more difficult in practice, as the (maximum) concentration of alcohol in the air would be relatively small (vapour pressure of ethanol is not that high). However, the absorbtion rate of ethanol through inhalation is way more efficient that through your digestive track. So the same quantity does more.
If you don't buy what I said, you can simply test it next time you go out drinking. Try hold the liquor/wine in your mouth and suck some air, much like those wine connnoisseur do when they taste wine... this will bring the alcohol vapour into your trachea... if you continuosuly do that, theoretically you'd get drunk faster.
2006-11-05 10:08:08 · answer #1 · answered by ArcH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enough alcohol fumes in a room might make you a little goofy from oxygen deprivation, but this would take a huge amount of open containers in a tiny room.
Alcohol is absorbed through the lining of the stomach, but it *can* be absorbed through other mucous membranes, there have even been some people who have snorted or injected it - but this is strongly discouraged. Having said that, it's probably technically possible, but the difficulty/danger is so great as to make it a functionally useless.
Odd
2006-11-04 12:50:34 · answer #2 · answered by OddSavant 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 19:29:26 · answer #3 · answered by eckhardt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose that 'theoretically', you could. If you think about when one sniffs gasoline to get a high, the injested fumes get them intoxicated. At the same time, I don't think that alcohol emits the same types of fumes that gasoline does.
2006-11-04 12:48:59 · answer #4 · answered by Hailee D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No but it might mess you up a little bit depending on how much and of what you sniffed.
2006-11-04 12:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by gamerx66x 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it could, then I'd never have to buy a fifth again!
2006-11-04 17:32:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but it can make you feel woozy, try smelling yeast and you'll find out (you don't have to)
2006-11-04 12:52:10 · answer #7 · answered by FELICIA H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't, but maybe somebody with less tolerance could.
2006-11-05 06:05:38 · answer #8 · answered by Damien C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. no. it has to enter your bloodstream. hey i guess if you ingest it by sucking it up through your nose.... but no.
2006-11-04 12:49:00 · answer #9 · answered by lb 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no it does not work
try it before
2006-11-04 16:25:48 · answer #10 · answered by Stan the man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋