Article: Alcohol: how it all adds up.

If you choose to drink alcohol, you should have as much information as you can so you can drink responsibly. This fact sheet should help you make more informed decisions.

Alcohol is alcohol is alcohol.

It does not matter whether the beverage of choice is beer, wine, a wine cooler, a cocktail, or a mixed drink. What matters is only one thing: the amount of alcohol in the drink.

Standard serving sizes of all alcohol beverages--beer, wine, and liquor--are equal in alcohol strength and in their effect on the body. They all contain the same amount of alcohol.

1 cocktail 1 1/2 oz. 80-proof spirits = 1 regular beer 12 oz. = 1 glass wine 5 oz. ...

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