After the traffic police got special devices that are designed to determine the alcohol content in the body and the stage of intoxication of a person, many drivers were puzzled by the question of how to trick a breathalyzer. This device is designed to analyze the vapor content of alcohol in the air that the driver exhales. The permissible alcohol concentration rate shown by the breathalyzer is exactly 0.3 ppm (gram of alcohol per 1 liter of blood), or 0.15 mg per 1 liter of air exhaled by a person.
If you refuse to "breathe in the tube" when the traffic police inspector suspects that you are in a state of intoxication, you will have to go to a specialized medical facility and take tests. Here, a narcologist can find you drunk if even the level of alcohol is lower than 0.3 ppm. Many drivers know this, and therefore come up with ways to trick a breathalyzer. After all, the punishment is very serious - deprivation of a driver’s license.
There are several allegedly valid ways to trick a breathalyzer:
- Blow past a tube or inhale a lot of clean air, and then exhale it. But experienced traffic cops will immediately notice such a hoax. Yes, and the breathalyzer controls the strength and duration of exhalation, so it’s impossible to “breathe”, the device will interrupt testing.
- Brush your teeth or use mouthwash. The breathalyzer will show zero result within 10 minutes after brushing your teeth.
- Come up with an excuse like "I drank kvass" or "I drank non-alcoholic beer." But this is just an excuse. Yes, after a cup of kvass, the reading of the breathalyzer will be 0.4 ppm, but after about a minute and a half it will become zero. After drinking beer (non-alcoholic), the device usually shows no more than 0.2 ppm.
- Drink sunflower oil. Often, drivers to consume the unpleasant smell of alcohol after parties and holidays, use sunflower oil. Enough about 50-100 grams. It is for 10-15 minutes. interrupts the smell of alcohol.
- “Cough” a pair of alcohol and take a deep breath. This is a good option on how to trick a breathalyzer. Taking deep breaths, you can reduce the amount of alcohol vapor in the lungs, and thereby reduce the performance of the device by 10-15%. But the developers of breathalyzers are considering ways to thus fool the device was impossible.
- Tablets "Anti-policeman", chewing gum, spray for the oral cavity. It would seem that the spray should freshen the breath well, but instead the readings of the breathalyzer increase. There were cases when a sober person, breathing into the device’s tube after using this tool for the oral cavity, saw 0.5 ppm (because the spray contains alcohol). And after a minute, the breathalyzer showed zero. Chewing gum will not help get rid of even the smell of alcohol. Antipolitiz tablets do not affect the performance of the breathalyzer, but have a characteristic odor that causes the traffic police to suspect.
- There is an opinion that a good helper is white chocolate, but this was not confirmed by anything.
- Chew any fragrant foods. For example, garlic, bay leaf, cloves, coffee grains, nutmeg. But, taking into account the technical features of the breathalyzer, these substances will not affect its performance in any way;
- Go to the bathhouse.
- Sleep well.
The last two options are the most effective, because time is always beneficial.
All these techniques, which show how to trick a breathalyzer, will not lead to anything good, although they can help in quite rare cases. A drunken driver is threatened by more serious troubles than a traffic police officer. Do not forget that in addition to devices, there are other ways to determine the state of intoxication. For example, a strong smell of alcohol, impaired speech, movement, inappropriate behavior.