Report Abuse. Japan is very conservative. Japan is also intolerant of others and xenophobic. They tend to be more monolithic than the US-there is very little diversity among the population.
The only way that alcohol can affect any of these antibiotics is to alter the rate in which the liver breaks them down or increase the rate in which they are excreted. However, because this is only true of certain antibiotics it is not true that alcohol, as a rule, decreases the effectiveness of antibiotics.
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. The effect of alcohol use on AD may be modified by other concurrent factors, such as tobacco use. Tobacco and alcohol use are related: smokers drink and drinkers smoke (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA] 1998).