Fallacies

Firstly, can anyone explain to me the logic in referring to "drink" as if it were synonymous with alcoholic beverages?

And why to we apply this term "drunkard" only to excessive consumers of this type of drink and not equally to babies who do nothing but drink for their first six months?

The word "intoxicated" literally means "poisoned." Like caffein, alcohol is only one of hundreds of intoxicating agents. Nobody does or could drink alcohol for it is an extremely distasteful poison rare in its state.

The peril of mixing drinks is a favourite fallacy and most drinkers believe in its mystic potency. It arises from the neglect of two facts first, it is the total quantity of alcohol consumed within a given time that counts. Secondly, the alcoholic ratio of drinks varies, e.g., for beer, wine, and most spiritits it is approximately 1, 3, 10. Thus to switch from beer to spirits is the equivalent of stepping up the rate of drinking ten times. To a [unclear: ran] drunk enough to stand the taste of mixed drinks the effect of ten extra glasses of beer drunk in the time normally taken to drink one, is to say the least, disastrous.

It is almost impossible for any drinker to pick differences in alcoholic strength and the "kick" of mixed spirit drinks is largely imagination.