One of my relatives used to be a physician-narcologist [treating alcoholics] in Vitebsk [Belarus]. Once he was called to head an emergency medical response team - in an industrial setting the workers found a 55 gal [200 liters]drum labeled "methyl alcohol" [i.e. methanol]. The word "alcohol" they understood, the word "methyl" they did not, skull/crossbones they did not believe - and so they [several hundred of them] drank it. Well, if I remember right, my uncle's team managed to save about a hundred of them - but they got blind.
It was not unusual for Americans to go blind during Prohibition ... from drinking "wood alcohol" or methanol.