Alcohol consumption among 16- to 24-year-olds is falling. So what is behind this new temperance?
, there has been a general decline in drinking: older people are still most likely to drink, while those least likely to drink are aged 16 to 24, with 26% of that age group fully teetotal.
When I was young, I, and most people I knew, might as well have taken a sleeping bag to the pub. Nor is this about disgusting, inebriated journalists who were lucky cameraphones had not been invented. In my glory days , the Great British piss-up – sticky, sudsy glasses; cigarette ash-strewn tables; the desperate pleas of a landlord calling “Last orders” – was an unofficial Olympic event.
Perhaps this “sober youth” thing is overstated: last month’s Glastonbury crowds looked fuelled by rather more than good vibes and bubble tea. And while reality shows such as, this seems less about what most participants want than a broadcasting duty of care.2015 study found a spike in young people using ecstasy and LSDStill, a trend for abstinence is interesting – and there could be many explanations.
Or maybe this cohort just prefers to mould their own consumer and hedonist identity rather than following in the footsteps of, say, the 1990s lads and ladettes: shunning alcohol just as, with the rise of veganism, they turned powerfully against meat.
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