OBJECTIVE To build students' profile regarding alcohol consumption and risk behavior. METHODS A total of 1,990 students were included in the study, aged 11 to 21 years old, from both genders, enrolled in public and private schools, in Southeastern Brazil, in 2004. A self-administered questionnaire was answered in the classroom without the presence of the teacher. The questionnaire also assess...

Background: Public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol warrants drastic action throughout the world. Although less alcohol related harm is anticipated in Islamic countries, unrecorded alcohol remains a considerable concern which needs intelligent and realistic policy options. Methods: In a descriptive study, records  of chemically analyzed samples of alcohol obtained from Ma...

In recent years, intensive studies have been carried out regarding the sensory activity of the individual components of the odours of various alcoholic beverages and the dependence between the odour and the chemical composition of the volatile fraction of these products, using gas chromatography with olfactometric detection (GC–O). GC–O is a technique based on sensory evaluation of the eluate f...

The secretory response of gastric acid to pure ethanol and alcoholic beverages may be different because the action of the non-ethanolic contents of the beverage may overwhelm that of ethanol. Pure ethanol in low concentrations (< 5% vol/vol) is a mild stimulant of acid secretion whereas at higher concentrations it has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one. Pure ethanol given by any route ...

AIMS Minimum alcohol prices in British Columbia have been adjusted intermittently over the past 20 years. The present study estimates impacts of these adjustments on alcohol consumption. DESIGN Time-series and longitudinal models of aggregate alcohol consumption with price and other economic data as independent variables. SETTING British Columbia (BC), Canada. PARTICIPANTS The population ...

Alcoholic beverages, apart from being haram, also cause loss of consciousness. The influence alcohol while driving is very dangerous and can result in an accident. For this reason, it necessary to detect the content beverages so that their halal status known avoid dangers consuming alcohol. This research aroma using MQ-3 gas sensor, which consists sensor general with Artificial Neuron Network (...

BACKGROUND This study examines the portrayals of soft drinks in popular American movies as a potential vehicle for global marketing and an indicator of covert product placement. METHODS We conducted a content analysis of America's top-ten grossing films from 1991 through 2000 that included portrayals of beverages (95 movies total). Coding reliabilities were assessed with Cohen's kappa, and ex...