From Paul Blezard
I read your cover feature on binge drinking with great interest, but there was one glaring omission from the article (21 August, p 28). Alison Motluk mentions that “the UK has the highest legal limit for drivers’ blood alcohol in Europe” but she doesn’t actually say what it is.
I can tell you: it is 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood, the very level which she says is now defined as binge drinking. Surely this was worthy of comment, if not a headline: “UK drink-driving limit allows binge drinking – shurely shome mishtake?”
Richmond, Surrey, UK
