Drinking at inappropriate times, and behavior caused by reduced judgment, can lead to legal consequences, such as criminal charges for drunk driving or public disorder, or civil penalties for tortious behavior, and may lead to a criminal sentence.

Drinking any infected water and eating any foods washed in the water, as well as shellfish living in the affected waterway, can cause a person to contract an infection.

Drinking can also be performed by acts of inhalation, typically when imbibing hot liquids or drinking from a spoon.

Drinking mate with friends from a shared hollow gourd ( also called a guampa, porongo or mate in Spanish, or cabaça or cuia in Portuguese, or zucca in Italian ) with a metal straw ( a bombilla in Spanish, bomba in Portuguese ) is a common social practice in Uruguay, Argentina and southern Brazil among people of all ages ; the beverage is most popular in Uruguay, where people are seen walking on the street carrying the " mate " and " termo " in their arms and where you can find hot water stations to refill the " termo " while on the road, Paraguay, Peru and Chile, eastern Bolivia and other states of Brazil, and has been cultivated in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

Common Sense Media, which mainly rates series in terms of violence, sex, and profanity, gave Scrubs a positive review and awarded it 4 out of 5 stars despite having rated both " Sex ", " Language " and " Drinking, drugs, & smoking " 3 out of 5, stating " this show can be screamingly funny but is very adult-oriented ".

Drinking very heavily can lead to poor nutrition, and excess alcohol makes it harder for the body to absorb and store thiamine.

Drinking plays a large part in 18th birthdays, as it is the age where one can legally purchase alcohol.

Drinking too much Gummiberry Juice has unforeseen side effects on the consumer, and it appears that the abilities gained from drinking the juice can only be used by humans once per day.

These other environmental laws can include but are not limited to the Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

General articles on drinking can be found in: Category: Drinking culture.

Information on bars, pubs and beer cafes can be found in: Category: Drinking establishments.

Drinking at least two liters of water each day, while avoiding caffeine and alcohol, can reduce many of the side effects.

Drinking water when there is another cause of the xerostomia besides dehydration may bring little to no relief and can even make the dry mouth more uncomfortable.

A fictionalised version of this work can be found in Val Wake's novel When the Lions are Drinking.

In the early stages of Drinking Liberally's growth, attendees were predominantly young ( between twenty and thirty years old ); as the organization has expanded and received greater media coverage, a much wider range of ages can be found at any particular meeting, and some chapters have been founded by people well over the age of thirty.

Drinking too much water before, during, and / or after exercise ( or at any time ) can cause nausea, diarrhea, confusion, and muscle tremors.

Wong Fei Hung takes a form he calls " monkey drinks master's wine " which bears resemblances and has a similar name to the Drunken Monkey forms " The Monkey King Stealing Wine ", " The Monkey King Drinking Wine " and " The Monkey King Becoming Drunk.

Drinking songs that consist of numerous verses describing the humorous and ribald invigorating effects of some food or medicine form almost a small genre in themselves.

Drinking straws are a form of plastic consumption when made, and become a landfill item when discarded.

Drinking with meals is also discouraged ; ;

Live drinking games such as Los Angeles-based " A Drinking Game " have also become popular, recreating films of the 80s in a " Rocky Horror " fashion, with gift bags, drinking cues, and costumed actors.

Drinking with Calvin and Luther !, Oakdown Books, ISBN 0-9700326-0-9

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

Drinking water faces an annual shortfall of $ 11 billion to manage their aging facilities and comply with federal regulations.

The groundwater protection standard is consistent with EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act standards, which the Agency applies in many situations as a pollution prevention measure.

In particular, he disliked the games Hoedown and Irish Drinking Song, often reacting negatively ( or with sarcastic irony ) to the games being announced.

He is known best in the U. S. for two novels ; A Night of Serious Drinking, and the allegorical novel Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing, both based upon his friendship with Alexander de Salzmann, a pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff.

Meanwhile, Boa was working with producer Stuart Epps on new material including an acoustic version of Duvet and the song Drinking.

In September 2004, Steve and Jasmine performed ' Drinking ' with their father, Paul Rodgers, at The Strat Pack.

Drinking alcohol is normative for adolescents in the United States, with more than 70 % of high school students reporting ever having had a drink.

Drinking water or potable water is water safe enough to be consumed by humans or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm.

His other songs were mostly a mixture of ballads associated with Ireland such as " I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen ", " Dear Old Donegal ", " Galway Bay ", " The Isle of Innisfree " ( the theme song from the film " The Quiet Man "), and another Dick Farrelly song, " The Rose of Slievenamon ", excerpts from operettas including " The Drinking song " from The Student Prince, " My Heart and I " from Richard Tauber's operatta Old Chelsea, and " Goodbye " from The White Horse Inn, along with familiar favourites such as " Come Back to Sorrento " and " Cara Mia ".

Drinking the dissolved poison, Sophonisba divests herself of her jewelry with great flourishes.

Drinking with George.

She discussed her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking and various topics in it with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on December 10, 2008 and also revealed that she wishes she had turned down the role of Princess Leia.

The three other finalists were " The Girl with the Cotton Candy Hair " by Oliver Brown, " Drinking Her Pretty " by Pedro Peterson, and " The Faith Within " by J Scott Rakozy.

Drinking culture refers to the customs and practices associated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

The confusion stems from the album Irish Drinking Songs, which is composed of separate tracks by The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers, with the former performing " Whiskey in the Jar ".

In 1998 the APPD ran in the Bundestag election with Karl Nagel as its candidate for the chancellorship, and using slogans like " Labour sucks " (" Arbeit ist Scheiße ") and " Drinking, drinking, every day just drinking " (" Saufen!

The song related a tale of alcoholism and suicide, it later provided Freud with the titles of his two autobiographies, I Am the Voice Left from Drinking ( 2002 ) and I Am the Voice Left from Rehab ( 2007 ).

After Drinking the water he exclaimed " Kanti amanz ' amtoti "( isiZulu: " So, the water is sweet ").