We know that our livers clear booze from our systems. But we've all also encountered someone so stinkin' drunk that they literally smell like booze. That's because there's ethanol (alcohol) on their breath; it turns out that in addition to the liver, the lungs also play a role in expelling alcohol. "It has been noted almost a century ago that the ethanol present in exhaled breath is amenable to a form of elimination proportional to the blood concentration and level of ventilation," writes a...
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