Drinkers buying breathalyzers

As the country wages a nationwide crackdown on drunken driving, motorists with a propensity to drink are hunting down gadgets and pills in an effort to evade police.

Devices that measure a driver's blood-alcohol content, such as breathalyzers, have been hot items recently, with sellers on taobao.com, the country's largest shopping website, each unloading dozens of testers on a daily basis.

So-called anti-tox drugs, that reportedly counteract the effects of alcohol, are selling well in online shops. Among them, an overseas supplement, labeled RU-21, was the most desirable.