Lab Report

摘要

If you're a beverage maker and the nicest words people can use to describe your product is "blackout in a can," you know you're in trouble. That was the case for the manufacturer of Four Loko, a drink that packs the alcohol content of four glasses of wine, the caffeine kick of a cup of coffee and enough sweetness to make it all go down easy into a 23.5-oz. (650 ml) can. The hospitalization of 23 students at Ramapo College in New Jersey with alcohol poisoning after drinking the stuff was only the most conspicuous example of what happens when people get hold of a beverage that gets them wasted but keeps them awake.