# Pilots can't drink tonic water?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 14, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173 "2015-09-14T03:03:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173/1 "2015-09-14T03:03:12Z")

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True?

Fact floated at Rosh Hashana table talk about Brits–\>ships–\>scurvy–\>Limeys, Brits–\>colonies–\>malaria/quinine–\>Gin and tonics.

Fact-spouter not brutally remonstrated with due to need to avoid accruing sins at precisely the wrong calendrical moment. Fact-spouter advised that the question would be raised on an Internet bulletin board. (Fact-spouter unimpressed.)

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173/2 "2015-09-14T03:06:40Z")

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Fact-spouter not know us very well.

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173/3 "2015-09-14T03:43:33Z")

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The content seems semi-coherent, but the title needs remedial attention,

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173/4 "2015-09-14T03:45:47Z")

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AFIAK, pilots are not prohibited from drinking tonic water.

There is some question as to whether the quinine in tonic water might upset a pilot’s equilibrium and/or cause night blindness.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-cant-drink-tonic-water/731173/5 "2015-09-14T03:47:08Z")

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I don’t think the question is coherent enough for GQ. I’m going to close this. You can try again, but please make it clear what you are asking and why.