All the media this morning has been talking about a new study from Northern Kentucky University. The study is to be published in a journal called "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research," which really should be the title of my memoirs.
The study consisted of 16 young men and women who
were given either Smirnoff mixed with Squirt, Smirnoff mixed with diet
Squirt, or a placebo drink. I was under the impression that they didn't
even sell Squirt anymore but apparently NKU
had a couple cans they really needed to get rid of, or maybe they were
just trying to find the most obscure mixer possible (they would have
used Tab but they wanted something that didn't have caffeine).
The conclusion of the study was that "[a]t all
times, the amount of alcohol measured in the volunteers’ breath was
higher among those whose cocktails included diet drinks. And while the
participants never reached the legal limit when they
drank sugared soda with alcohol, they exceeded the safe limit for
driving within 40 minutes if they had the diet cocktail." They also said the diet Squirt group apparently didn't feel any more drunk but performed worse at tasks, so diet mixers can be trouble... 
WARNING: diet mixers may lead to waking up next to her.
