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A teenager died after drinking a super-strength spirit with a 95% alcohol content at her 18th birthday party.

Nicole Bicknell collapsed after drinking just a few shots of Polmos Spirytus Rektyfikowany.

Her heartbroken family has now called for a complete ban on the drink's sale in Australia.

Nicole had only had a few mixed drinks during the course of the part but was allegedly offered the spirit by a friend.

She was dead a few hours later, the Courier Mail reports.

Her family must wait a few weeks for her official cause of death to be confirmed, but they believe the spirit killed her.

The Australian Medical Association called for Spirytus Rektyfikowany to be banned two years ago.

Nicole, from Perth, Western Australia, rarely drank alcohol, and had wanted to become a police officer like her father and grandfather.

One 500ml bottle of Spirytus Rektyfikowany contains the equivalent of 38 standard drinks.

This is more than twice the recognised potentially lethal amount for an average adult.

The drink has been described as 'highly concentrated ethanol' which should be used in very small quantities as a base for mixed drinks.

A spokeswoman for Woolworths Liquor Group said Spirytus Rektyfikowany had been removed from sale from all of its Australian stores, the Courier Mail reports.

But it is available from some independent Australian liquor retail websites.

Nicole’s family said they want Polmos Spirytus Rektyfikowany and any other high-strength liquor banned from sale across the country.

“I cannot see why alcohol so strong is sold in liquor stores,” her granddad Kevin McLean is quoted as saying.

"We want it banned Australia-wide and we would like to see it an offence to sell it.”