This is all part of the puritanical shift that’s happening in some Gen Z circles, this post can’t be talking about millennials. I saw an article a few months ago that stated millennials were the drunkest generation and that while Gen Z as a whole drink less there has been a strong uptick in their consumption recently. Can’t imagine why they might have started drinking more, well besides you know the everything happening in the world

And those not doing nicotine are probably doing THC instead. There is a measurable negative impact of legalizing marijuana on alcohol sales

Which is weird, cause I can drop drinking no problem, I'm on the nicotine train for life though, 35yo.

Yeah, we're going to let you have this one

Weird flex.

You can recover by telling us we're dumb for building houses out of wood, or calling us fat.

Denmark that has been topping the drinking charts among 15-16 year olds almost every year this century:

It's not hard to get liquor as a teen in the US and it's underground. I was drinking too vomiting just about every weekend throughout highschool. I doubt that's going on as much with a 5% lager in a pub, and I don't see clubs tolerating it that much.

I'd be interested in seeing numbers on which produce more alcoholics. Coming from the latter, the former would have been much safer and better overall🤷‍♂️.

The vaping is depressing because it feels like all the gains made by anti-smoking have been eroded with more people smoking than ever before.

While what you seen is definitely real, it may not be as bad as what you see as you work in the field of youth crisis. You see it so often as that is your job and it can skew your findings to be more to the negative side as people that are not having those issues likely aren't going to a youth crisis center and therefore are not around you. Again, it is very much a thing, but you do have some unintended bias as that is what you do for a living.

Having a coping mechanism because we are not hopeful about the future is standard from my experience

Now we just consume lead trough plant based protein supplements

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/nx-s1-5576294/protein-powder-lead-consumer-reports

From what I've seen in the UK, it's not that the youth particularly see temperance as a virtue it's more than unless you're going to a Spoons pints are £6 if not more these days. Ket is big in Britain too, on account of it being cheap especially compared to pints. They don't want to be filmed while hammered and immortalised on tiktok either.

I feel it's a common problem that economic factors are often attributed to moral ones.

Tastes are funny. I think coke tastes like ass. I'd much rather have a good beer.

if it tasted like a full fat Coke, lol.

Sugar is more addictive than alcohol.

Late forties is late gen x, a firm decade between you and the boomwrs