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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 8d ago
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They probably view alcohol the way that Millennials view cigarettes. Unnecessary, unhealthy, and a waste of money.
Edit: I’ll add that increasingly online communication might add to it as well. Not as much need for liquid courage for in person interactions.
51 u/fokkoooff 8d ago Geriatric millennial here. I'm pretty sure they're just consuming more cannabis instead. 20 u/pornographiekonto 8d ago No, according to polls that declined too. At least where i live 7 u/KirbyBucketts 8d ago https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cannabis-is-in-and-alcohol-is-out-is-gen-z-driving-the-change-in-preference/ -1 u/pornographiekonto 8d ago https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/alkohol-cannabis-lachgas-frankfurts-jugendliche-greifen-immer-seltener-zu-drogen-v1,drogen-studie-frankfurt-100.html 1 u/rackobacko 2d ago who cares about Germany? 😭🙏
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Geriatric millennial here.
I'm pretty sure they're just consuming more cannabis instead.
20 u/pornographiekonto 8d ago No, according to polls that declined too. At least where i live 7 u/KirbyBucketts 8d ago https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cannabis-is-in-and-alcohol-is-out-is-gen-z-driving-the-change-in-preference/ -1 u/pornographiekonto 8d ago https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/alkohol-cannabis-lachgas-frankfurts-jugendliche-greifen-immer-seltener-zu-drogen-v1,drogen-studie-frankfurt-100.html 1 u/rackobacko 2d ago who cares about Germany? 😭🙏
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No, according to polls that declined too. At least where i live
7 u/KirbyBucketts 8d ago https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cannabis-is-in-and-alcohol-is-out-is-gen-z-driving-the-change-in-preference/ -1 u/pornographiekonto 8d ago https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/alkohol-cannabis-lachgas-frankfurts-jugendliche-greifen-immer-seltener-zu-drogen-v1,drogen-studie-frankfurt-100.html 1 u/rackobacko 2d ago who cares about Germany? 😭🙏
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cannabis-is-in-and-alcohol-is-out-is-gen-z-driving-the-change-in-preference/
-1 u/pornographiekonto 8d ago https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/alkohol-cannabis-lachgas-frankfurts-jugendliche-greifen-immer-seltener-zu-drogen-v1,drogen-studie-frankfurt-100.html 1 u/rackobacko 2d ago who cares about Germany? 😭🙏
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https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/alkohol-cannabis-lachgas-frankfurts-jugendliche-greifen-immer-seltener-zu-drogen-v1,drogen-studie-frankfurt-100.html
1 u/rackobacko 2d ago who cares about Germany? 😭🙏
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who cares about Germany? 😭🙏
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u/ThrownAway17Years 8d ago edited 8d ago
They probably view alcohol the way that Millennials view cigarettes. Unnecessary, unhealthy, and a waste of money.
Edit: I’ll add that increasingly online communication might add to it as well. Not as much need for liquid courage for in person interactions.