Мало того, это происходит до сих пор: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/alcohol-poisoning.html
Drinking-alcohol is heavily taxed but ethanol is heavily subsidized so poisoning or denaturing is used to prevent arbitrage. Even today some people occasionally go blind or die when they try to drink some form of denatured ethanol but this is rare since safe, drinking alcohol is readily available, even if expensive.
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Date: 2010-02-28 09:14 am (UTC)