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 **Enough to be fatal ~ 350 mg/dL ~= 76 mmol/L.
-Ethanol intoxication:<ref>URL: [http://www.southend.nhs.uk/pathologyhandbook/clinical_chemistry/Guidelines/ethanol_poisoning.htm http://www.southend.nhs.uk/pathologyhandbook/clinical_chemistry/Guidelines/ethanol_poisoning.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref>
+=====Ethanol intoxication as a table<ref name=southendnhs>URL: [http://www.southend.nhs.uk/pathologyhandbook/clinical_chemistry/Guidelines/ethanol_poisoning.htm http://www.southend.nhs.uk/pathologyhandbook/clinical_chemistry/Guidelines/ethanol_poisoning.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref>=====
 {| class="wikitable"
-|Mild
+|
+|Concentration
+|Concentration
+|Concentration
+|Concentration
+|-
+|Legal limit - Ontario<ref>URL: [http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/impaired/fact-sheet.shtml http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/impaired/fact-sheet.shtml]. Accessed on: 28 September 2010.</ref>
+| 80 mg/dL
+| ~17 mmol/L
+| 0.8 g/L
+| 0.08 mg/dL
+|-
+|Mild
+| < 180 mg/dL
+| < 39 mmol/L
 | < 1.8 g/L
 | < 0.18 g/dL
-| < 180 mg/dL
-| < 39 mmol/L
 |-
 |Moderate
+| 180-350 mg/dL
+| 39-76 mmol/L
 | 1.8-3.5 g/L
 | 0.18-0.35 g/dL
-| 180-350 mg/dL
-| 39-76 mmol/L
 |-
 |Severe
-| 3.5-4.5 g/L
-| 0.35-0.45 g/dL
 | 350-450 mg/dL
 | 76-98 mmol/L
+| 3.5-4.5 g/L
+| 0.35-0.45 g/dL
 |}
+Notes:
+*1 mg/dL = 1/4.607 mmol/L.
+**Ethanol's molar mass = 46.07 g/mol.
 ====Cocaine====