hard liquor” on the same occasion, at least once a month. Finally, PassOut was a pseudo-continuous measure of the number of days in the past year that participants passed out due to alcohol consumption. Measures were binned in 2-year age intervals to stabilize estimation, and the minimum baseline age (intercept) was 18 for Freq, gEtOH, and Heavy, and 24 for PassOut, since this was assessed in the 1981 and later questionnaires but not the 1975 questionnaire.
