'Smoking' alcohol is a highly dangerous trend among the calorie-conscious

In an effort to lose weight, Broderic Allen stopped drinking. The North Texas man lost 80 pounds - but was unwilling to give up his buzz entirely. Instead, Allen turned to a disturbing technique: inhaling alcohol, which he says provides all of the flavor and intoxication of chugging a mixed drink with none of the sugars and calories. Allen, who achieves his high by pouring liquor over dry ice and "smoking" the vapors, called the tactic a way to "have my cake and eat it, too." "I am inhaling it. It just looks like I'm drinking it," Allen told Fox's KCTV-5 as he downed his concoction. "If you do it too much at one time it kind of overwhelms you."

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