alcohol fumes from someone else

[Bimbo14]

Someone believes that if they breathe around someone who has been drinking or in a bar that a person can get intoxicated if they breathe the same air or are able to smell the alcohol on someone else they are inhaling intoxicating breath. I have never heard this about alcohol and have studied addiction as part of family history & my job. My opinion is this person is way off base. Yes its possible to get drunk off vapors inhaled in a pipe or maybe inhaling gasoline fumes or working where forms of alcohol are produced and perhaps inhaling them on the job, but I've never heard of being around a person drinking and smelling the stench of a heavy drinker or being where they drink and getting any alcohol effects. What is your opinion or have you ever seen any research on this? Thank you in advance.

[Jinx_777]

i probably would have been drunk A LOT when i was a small child if this were true

[ibizan]

OH YES!that person is way off base and out in left field with that mindset!geesh!