It's called "several wine" because it's designed to overdose people without knowing it。
This wine is packed in easy to pull cans, in colour. Journalists observed 695 ml of alcohol per cant from the markings on the bottle, at 12 per cent. Despite the fact that many web stores have identified their products as fruity drinks and some as beer, it should be a pre-coated cocktail。
According to netizens who tried the wine, it had a strong fruit and sweetness that covered the smell of alcohol, and the entrance was like a carbonated beverage, so that people could drink a bottle with their mouths full. The norm for wines is 750 ml per bottle, and alcohol levels are generally 12-14 degrees, which many people cannot afford if they drink at once. You know, 695 milligrams of four-locks, easily drunk with one breath。
One of the netizens said that he drank a bottle of wine for half an hour and that it took him hours to drink a bottle of wine. Another internet user assessed it as “not spicy, easily accessible”。
A number of networkers selling four-locks gave a conversion figure for alcohol, one four-lock equivalent to five vodkas, or five wines, or six beers。
So, it's not an exaggeration for everyone who drinks it to say "one vial of amnesia." “do not question the effect of fourloko, nor believe in its volume. If you're trying to challenge me, then drink at least one can, and don't try two or more fourloko, which is the most popular, gentlest warning on the internet。
It's "grey history" by name
Why is 4 rock so powerful? According to the united states newsweek, “four” is included in the name “four” because the beverage contains four components: alcohol (suspense), caffeine (stimulant), guarana (brazilian stimulants) and cow sulfuric acid (stimulant frequently present in energy drinks)。
In 2005, the four rocks were created by several graduates of ohio state university in the united states, as a functional beverage that was pushed into the market by phusion projects in the united states, at a time when young people in the united states had had a stroke。
According to the north american youth pandemic magazine, vice, the popularity of the four rocks has been drastically reduced in the united states due to government regulation, negative news and parental anxiety。
In november 2010, the united states food and drug administration (fda) issued a warning that the illegal addition of caffeine to the four-locks could damage brain cells and endanger the liver. At least five states in the united states banned the sale of such beverages at one time。
Fda's fear stems from the “lessons of blood”. According to the new york daily news, in october 2010, nine students from washington university were collectively rescued at a party and their blood alcohol levels rose to lethal levels after drinking four-locks, one of whom fainted after 30 minutes。
Studies published in the united states journal addictions show that the proportion of people who drink this mixed drink is three times more than that of those who drink alcohol-only products. This is also the rationale behind the “warning” issued by the united states fda。
Since then, there have been state capitals in the united states joining the four-lock ban. After many tragedies, universities in the united states began to impose a ban on drinking four-locks in schools, social groups urged surrounding shops to stop selling and large businesses to self-consciously dispose of four-locks. The fda ordered phusion either to change the formula or to go down, and phusion launched an improved version one month later to remove the caffeine from the original formulation and become a pure alcoholic beverage. Today, in the united states, the “original formula” of four locks is no longer available through formal channels, and only an “improved” version without caffeine is available。
However, the controversy over the four locks has not stopped in the united states. “the alcohol content of 12 per cent remains high. I mean, 13 percent is about the alcohol content of a bottle of wine, and "daniel norton, a bartender, told the national broadcasting corporation, "a minor under the age of 21 or a person who is not fit to drink a bottle of wine is drinking a whole bottle of wine."
In 2015, the united states “consumer affairs” website (a consumer news site) quoted the attorney general of iowa, tom miller, as saying: “the four-locks are products that put people at high risk through high alcohol levels, and we are calling on companies to reduce their alcohol content to an industry standard of 8 per cent.” d. C. Attorney general mckenna had stated that a woman weighing 60 kg could be alcohol-toxic if she drank two four-lock drinks. New york state senators also lobbied the obama administration for the abolition of 4locks across the state。
It's banned in the united states
This alcohol, which is poorly purchased in the united states and at a retail price of about us$ 2. 5 (approximately us$ 17), is on fire in china, and the four-lock chinese official network is priced at us$ 69, or about us$ 10。
One of the biggest sales points of the “four-locks” is what appears to be “no harm to humans and animals” and, in fact, a “drink instrument”。
Accusations were made for “screeching”, “lost”, “screeching”, “divine wine” and internet transmissions that make it possible to “discreet”, making many young people curious and trying to prove the amount of alcohol with a four-lock test. The new york post writes with concern that in china, “several alcohol” does not appear to be a warning language, but rather a marketing tool that encourages people to buy。
As journalists have seen in treasure hunting and kyoto, the amount of alcohol sold is quite impressive, with the most expensive internet dealers delivering almost 10,000 units per month, while its “product evaluation” has more than 20,000 items, with recent sales exceeding the domestic market's largest share of pre-soldier cocktails. In their evaluations, many buyers say that they can try to “break the film”, more than 70 per cent say “heavy”, and about half say that they have had a headache after drinking。
More than 300 answers were given in response to a question and answer website about “how strong fourloko's drinking power is”. Most of them said that after drinking, there was a strong intoxication and that they could not remember at all what had happened, or only a part of what had happened in the process, from being drunk to being sober
As a result, the term “discretion film” has had an extraordinary promotional effect. Today, the media are so diverse that there is no doubt that this statement can no longer be examined, but it has undoubtedly served to encourage over-drinking and, for that reason, the web has tried to circumvent it. Journalists were able to see a large number of sellers adding the word “discretionary” to the title 10 days ago, and at the time of writing, reunification had been removed。
In june of this year, shen yang ausiliu trading limited, the general distributor of the chinese district of wine, solemnly clarified to the media and consumers at large that the import of chinese goods had been removed from the “prohibited ingredients”. But the general manager of the company concluded by saying, “the four locks, although they are a foreign wine, their character as a ‘a jar of tectonics’ is giving the chinese taste, freeing the real me of my passion.”
I'm lost
Now, the 4rs sell not only on the internet, but also in physical stores。
Journalists saw four locks selling at a full-time convenience store located in beijing's seadish treasure. According to press reports from fujian and liaoning, there are physical shops selling four-locks, and nightclubs, restaurants and ktv are the home of four-lock sales。
It was easy to buy four-locks online, and prices were falling。
By september, the product could have been bought on the treasure hunt and the skycat. Media quoted reports from xinhua that 4rock had no manufacturer in china and that all products were imported; at the time of skycat sale, the merchant had stated that 4lock had no caffeine but contained 14 per cent alcohol. Consumers who read its english formulation in english stated that old formulations containing 12 per cent alcohol and caffeine had appeared on the treasure hunt。
After september, after a controversy over media reports, poaching and skycat suspended the sale of the four-locks, but the improved four-locks were still being sold and sold in good quantities on internet shopping platforms, such as in kyototown and store no. 1。
In connection with thermal sale of the product in china, the relevant head of phusion projects stated in an interview with the il ying magazine that they had not sold the fourlocks to any chinese shopping site and had issued misleading advertisements. “our products are imported into china through third parties, sold to distribution networks and then retailed.”
But after october, the sale of the four rocks in the treasure and skycats spread as if the four loko flagships had opened up, and countless new ones had appeared. Journalists found that some of the internet stores had just been registered at the end of september, selling only four-locks; one of the internet stores selling household goods was also selling four-locks. A large number of sellers are importing their own four-locks directly from the united states and at increasingly cheap prices. Journalists have seen that it is now rare to see a 30-dollar drop in the price per can。
It is even more worrying that the four rocks are not only as strong as alcohol, but also that most of the goods sold are of unknown origin. Reports indicate that the consumption of 4locks is well above normal imports。
The reporter once looked at a customer who had purchased four-locks at the four loko four rock flagship store at 60 per unit price, complaining that the customer's service was too expensive, and replied: “we sell good, i don't appreciate other products, old customers know what's going on”. Journalists have been informed from the evaluation of the buyer of the web that many of the products purchased are not labelled in chinese, indicating that many of the “four-locks” are being sold in the market for informal imports, possibly old formulations or even counterfeit goods。
