Alcohol is more readily available abroad, and for that reason, consumption is many times greater than it is at home. Furthermore, beer and wine are easy alternatives to mineral water when one wants to compensate for fluid loss.

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• and heat can be a dangerous combination.
• and traffic, swimming and boating make for a very high risk of accident
• and driving motor vehicles can result in both imprisonment and liability for damages.
• may entail an increased risk of sexual assault and the subsequent mental health problems, venereal diseases and perhaps even HIV.
• dulls your sense of awareness and increases the risk that you suffer accidents, thefts and assaults.
• in combination with certain medicines can be dangerous.

Moreover, your insurance policies do not cover you if you have an accident in connection with having consumed alcohol. Someone guilty of impaired driving may even risk having his driver’s licence suspended.