A few days ago on Twitter, some right-wing "thinker" threw out this idea about Gen Z's decrease in alcohol consumption:
It’s because they’re sitting around by themselves smoking weed. Not a positive shift at all. Society can thrive when there’s lots of social drinking. That’s been proven. But no society of stoners has ever accomplished anything.
A person named Ryan Burge, research director at an NGO called My Faith Counts, responded with this graph and these words :
So this is demonstrably false. In a survey of high school seniors, in 1976, 64% of them had consumed marijuana in their lifetime. Among seniors from 2022, just 38% have ever consumed marijuana. Alcohol consumption is way down. Cigarette smoking has collapsed, too.
Which is, of course, very interesting. I had no idea that my high school years were the height of teenage bad behavior.
We were some bad kids! Who knew.
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