While less alcohol consumption is a good thing, I do wonder if any other bad habits replaced it.
Poll reports drinking in U.S. at record low
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Recent alcoholic beverage price increases are a factor too.
Chart those over the past 10 years to clearly see a Covid/shortages/price gouging spike.
Chart those over the past 10 years to clearly see a Covid/shortages/price gouging spike.
Not gonna hear about a bunch of fights, domestic violence, debauchery, and broken homes/families/relationships as a result pounding energy drinks and coffee on the daily though.
What a crap article. "Alcohol consumption may negatively affect health" but not one mention of "cancer" or "carcinogen".
Of course alcohol consumption is declining due to health reasons. And a very specific health reason - alcohol consumption is a known carcinogen. There's no denying this fact. There's no safe amount to consume, now or in your past.
Of course alcohol consumption is declining due to health reasons. And a very specific health reason - alcohol consumption is a known carcinogen. There's no denying this fact. There's no safe amount to consume, now or in your past.
I think there’s just generally a lot more things to do and ways to entertain yourself nowadays, so the social aspects of drinking has changed. Especially for younger people.
I suspect the biggest factor is the cost of alcoholic drinks at bars and resturaunts.
Small amount of people know ethyl alcohol is a toxin. Really quite hard on the liver in even low amounts.
I cannot say this is influencing this reduction, we will see if it's a true trend.
I cannot say this is influencing this reduction, we will see if it's a true trend.
Drinking has its social aspects and covid tweaked our children’s childhood. Really sad. Will never regret my high school thru college drinking/social life. It did fall off slowly into my 30s and rarely in my 50s.
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I think it’s oversimplifying the situation to just assume everyone has replaced alcohol with cannabis. People have been using cannabis for a long time, regardless of legal status. I don’t know about y’all but growing up it was way easier to get pot than beer. Like not even close.
But to be fair maybe cannabis is taking over, it definitely has become more socially acceptable. Likely people just aren’t believing the propaganda anymore. How serious are we supposed to take an anti-cannabis billboard or commercial when it’s sandwiched between the Miller Lite and OxyContin advertisements?
But to be fair maybe cannabis is taking over, it definitely has become more socially acceptable. Likely people just aren’t believing the propaganda anymore. How serious are we supposed to take an anti-cannabis billboard or commercial when it’s sandwiched between the Miller Lite and OxyContin advertisements?
I don't think it is. There was a spike, but people want clarity. Not fog.
I think most people realize there is no escape via intake of any substance.
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Well, it sure seems like an increasingly high number of chemical products require staff help at self check out … Something to that.
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Are you implying one has to put their smart phone down to go to the liquor store?
I loved the drive through cocktail places
Kinda funny is the bar sign on the way up Mount Baker “Last Chance for Cocktails!” Just what you need for a twisty mountain road!
It's a poll, let us not forget the nations percentage of age groups is getting older. The percentage of the older age groups has grown rapidly since 2010 and I am not sure how that is represented in this poll.
I do think there maybe less drinking but not a whole lot.
Here is the motherland of stats.
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-...es-age-groups-and-demographic-characteristics
Here is an interactive site to look at age groups by decade. It shows like night and day the aging population. Even selecting 2010 and then going to 2020
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/age-sex-pyramid-for-the-united-states.html
It's the generations after " Gen X " ( 1965-1980 ). I was hatched in 1967. Do the math. I fell right into the 1980's " Decade of Decadence". Drink till you drop, do as much coke as " Scarface" could get into the country, smoke 15 joints a day. It was all cheap. Fake ID's got you into any club or bar, then then " After hours places" till 10 am. The music, the excess, the body abuse,was a " normal" part of growing up. MTV & Arena Concerts played a big role in it too.. Then came the next generations....more concerned about their health, going to OMG, a GYM !!!. My nephew is 30 and gets Botox injections. I was like " WHAT !?!?! " At 30, I was chugging 30 packs of beer !!!! Weed plays no role in this. It's still the dirt bags smokin that stuff. Cigarette smokin is way down ( oh no, too many chemicals ), Drinkin is way down ( oh no, bad for you're liver and brain ) Botox is up, breast implants at 25 is up, lip injections are up. It's the " ME" generations nowadays. I don't know, I had a BLAST in the 80's, and don't regret it one bit....
I think the opposite, beer is up but more so the Non Alcoholic beers especially Heineken 0 which is nice and crisp.
I was born in 1980,tomorrow to be exact. I love being the last part of Generation X
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