Thoughts on why Gen Z is not drinking alcohol?

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Whilst I can’t speak for every Gen Z person, I know why I don’t drink alcohol: I hate the taste of it.

But other people have their theories on the matter and some of them seem plausible.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Younger generations drink less alcohol because energy drinks are not considered adult beverages and they drink less alcohol because they are taking pills, which don't count as real drugs.

It is all a mirage. They get totally trashed but in ways that society has not yet caught up with. The dirty secret is that a lot (no joke your Mom or your sister could be on it and lying, it is everywhere) of people of all ages are abusing Xanax or other drugs like alprazolam.

 

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Weed

 

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Younger generations drink less alcohol because energy drinks are not considered adult beverages and they drink less alcohol because they are taking pills, which don't count as real drugs.

It is all a mirage. They get totally trashed but in ways that society has not yet caught up with. The dirty secret is that a lot (no joke your Mom or your sister could be on it and lying, it is everywhere) of people of all ages are abusing Xanax or other drugs like alprazolam.

Well yes, pill poppers have been around for a loooooong time. But never has there been a generation like Gen Z that avoids drinking alcohol.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Probably because they're broke.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Most bars here are full of young people

 

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Weed

That’s definitely got to be a major part of it. So many people just nonchalantly whip out their vape pens and start sucking on them….and it ALWAYS looks so effing retarded.

 

[Chao Garden]

why do people make everything a generational issue

 

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Most bars here are full of young people

But are they drinking alcohol or vaping or doing something else?

In the video I posted, the English guy said that nightclubs in England are closing at the rate of 1 per week due to a lack of patrons.

why do people make everything a generational issue

Everything? Why do some people feel the need to paint with such broad brush strokes?

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

But are they drinking alcohol or vaping or doing something else?

Who goes to a bar to vape?

 

[Sloppy Party Bottom]

alcohol is haram

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Gen Z is all fags. Fags love alcohol.

The clubs aren't closing because of people not drinking. It's because people don't socialize the same way as before. Why spend a bunch of money to go to the club and buy expensive drinks in hopes of hooking up with someone at 1 am when you can just go on a hook-up app and find a fuck buddy?

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Well yes, pill poppers have been around for a loooooong time. But never has there been a generation like Gen Z that avoids drinking alcohol.

Never have there been this many people on pills. They look you right in the eye and lie about it to your face. It is everywhere.

 

[eDove]

A long time ago, there were like 3-4 "grown up" drinks. Now there're hundreds of options. As mentioned already, it leans more toward caffeine than alcohol.

Also, drinking just isn't as cool when all the adults in your life are drinking constantly. This younger generation has been inundated with it. It's no longer cool or taboo.

I only need a few sips of an alcoholic drink and I'm satisfied, whereas many of my family members were obnoxiously addicted and it just gets old. You inevitably start associating those habits with lame geezer passtimes, like cable TV.

 

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I don't know or care about others outside of my circle much so idk, but my nieces/nephews and their bf/gf drink beer or wine coolers occasionally.

They saw me fall into alcoholism and it scared them off good. I guess some good did come of it in the end.

 

[Shart Attack]

Maybe because more than half of zoomie zooms are still underage, and therefore aren't drinking or aren't reporting their drinking?

And who cares? Alcohol is poison, the worst social evil in history. If future generations lost their taste for it, it would only be a net benefit to mankind.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Never have there been this many people on pills. They look you right in the eye and lie about it to your face. It is everywhere.

You act like the 70s never existed and quaaludes weren't a thing, LOL.

Or the 2000s pill mills, perhaps?

America was always a pill popping nation, since about the 50s or 60s

 

[Justice Tony]

And who cares? Alcohol is poison, the worst social evil in history. If future generations lost their taste for it, it would only be a net benefit to mankind.

That's just not true. Many great men drank. Nixon drank, McCarthy drank, JFK drank, LBJ drank, Dollfuss drank, Franco drank. Name one good teetotaler.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

It's just becoming more socially acceptable to be a pussy.

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

Cuz we straight edge up in this bitch, pussies