Why is alcohol poisonous?

it interferes with brain functioning, and when that is only higher function to do with mood, it feels good. But when you have so much that your brain can't tell you to breathe or you vomit and inhale it - you can die.

Also, in the longer term, it causes the liver to die and have to regenerate, eventually the liver becomes scarred and blood can't pass through it, making blood force its way to your stomach, bust blood vessels and you bleed out into your stomach

Yes because your body might stop breathing and be careful.

When consumed in moderate amounts, ethanol is not a toxin. However, in large enough quantities it can cause alcohol poisoning. In such cases, the dosage makes alcohol a poison or toxin. On the other hand, alcohol in moderation leads to better health and greater longevity.

Alcohol can cause liver failure, which is fatal. Your liver isn't made to process poison. Same thing with your kidneys. Last, and most important, your brain function decreases with alcohol use. Addiction is a sign that your body is dependent on poison, and that will kill you. Have you ever seen a young, beautiful alcoholic? No, of course not. People who are addicted to alcohol are old and disfigured, way before their time.

Because it can.

it can depress your system enough that your heart stops.

The reason alcohol is poisonous is because it's the waste product of the yeast cell when you drink alcohol you're drinking the piss and the poop of an yeast cell. Urine and feces are toxic they contain the poisons that your body cannot use that's why they came out. That's why I alcohol is poison it is the urine and the feces of a yeast cell. The so-called high you experience from alcohol is because you were poisoned that's why they call it intoxication you have taken poison

Force someone to drink too much water -- you can kill them.

We need to breathe oxygen to live. Stop breathing for 10 minutes and you are dead.

Air is about 20% oxygen. Breathing 100% oxygen will kill you.

Oxygen is not a poison.

Water is not a poison.

Alcohol is not a poison.

Too much of anything can kill you.

Drinking excessive amounts of water can kill you.

Your liver and kidneys get over worked and fail