Funny how those associations work. When I was 15, I drank a pint of 90 proof Jack in about five minutes. I probably weighed about 140 back then. Anyway, it probably was something close to alcohol poisoning and I was still vomiting three days later. For many years after, just a bare whiff of whiskey made me nauseous. I had to mix the hell out of it to drink the stuff through high school and college.
I'm a dedicated scotch drinker now but I still get the occasional out-of-nowhere twinge of ewwww when I drink other whiskeys.