When I first started drinking, I believed that drinking a lot was the macho thing to do. I was always trying to be grown up and getting blasted without blasting my gut was a sure sign that I had made it into manhood. What a load of old codswallop! Alcohol tolerance tricks your mind believing you're infallible, indestructible, immune to the damage. In the end, the real question is: when are you going to cop on to the fact that the more you drink, the more damage is caused - in more ways than one?