5 Ways a Personal Breathalyzer Could Save Your Life

Drinking and driving is a serious issue, and there is so much educational material available on the subject that anyone who doesn't already know how dangerous drinking and driving is should not be allowed to drive because they are just not paying attention to life. That being said, education is only the beginning of fixing any serious problem. Taking action on what has been learned is the path to a solution. Here are 5 ways a personal breathalyzer could save your life.

Avoid a Fatal Car Crash.

If you have a personal breathalyzer on hand with you, you will know when it's safe to get behind the wheel and drive home. The legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in most states is 0.08, and in many others states it’s as low as 0.05. A person weighing 160 pounds only needs two beers within a two hour period to have a BAC of 0.04, which is technically below the legal limit to drive. But this same person is 1.4 times more likely to be involved in a car crash than a person who is completely sober. It's safest to drive only when you are totally sober, so having a personal breathalyzer will let you know when you are sober and safe to drive.

Avoid Getting Mugged

If you live in a large metropolitan area, crime is a fact of life. Being in the wrong part of town is virtually asking to get robbed, but being in any part of town while drunk is like putting a bull's-eye on your back for potential muggers. Forget trying to defend yourself, too, because your reaction and coordination goes down the tubes when you're drunk. Using a personal breathalyzer will keep you out of trouble by letting you know when it’s safe to walk home or to be out standing on the sidewalk.

Avoid Getting Into Fights

We all know the guy who in the daytime is meek as a church mouse, but get a few drinks in him and he turns into "Fists of Fury". Suddenly he has a chip on his shoulder and anyone unlucky enough to be standing nearby is somehow looking at him wrong. The majority of the time he ends up getting his teeth kicked in. You could be a friend and use a personal breathalyzer to check their BAC after a couple drinks if it appears they may be reaching "Fists of Fury" threshold.

Avoid Getting Stabbed By Your Wife or Significant Other

There's nothing wrong with getting drunk with the guys every now and then, but things start to go down hill when cheating on your wife or significant other becomes a logical decision. Going home smelling like a brewery that just got hit by a perfume attack won’t do anything to help your relationship, and neither will that opened condom wrapper you’re wife finds in your pants pocket. Use a personal breathalyzer so you can avoid getting stabbed by your wife or significant other.

Avoid STD's

We've all heard the term beer goggles, but most times the beer goggles are fixed firmly to our common sense. If you've somehow gotten lucky despite being a sloppy drunken mess, using a protection while consummating the luckiness may not dawn on you. If you use a personal breathalyzer, you'll know when it's time to taper back so you won't make a stupid decision that will alter the rest of your adult life.

Remember to use a personal breathalyzer when you go out on the town. You're life may depend on it.