You know what else we also didn't poison ourselves with at anywhere NEARLY as high a level as boomers did? Lead.
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Where I am, some vape shops market themselves like they're dispensaries.
Not sure if boomers includes late forties but I quit drinking 4 or 5 years ago & went vegetarian.
Best decisions of my life after marriage & having kids.
Late forties is late gen x, a firm decade between you and the boomwrs
The piper is coming. No I'm not defending alcohol, but the level of drug addiction among our young people is shocking. The amount of digital addiction is shocking. I work in youth crisis so I am not talking on my ass, most young people are addicts now. So it's all fun to talk down about boomers who drank but holy fuck is this generation ever screwed.
Not all of them are even old enough to buy it yet.
Right? At least I can drink and work.
Wait...
I don't want to have an automatic yeah no yeah no back and forth with you but... I suspect I'm much older than you and I can attest here that most people, even in professional roles, were hammered all day. They were as "functional" as this current generation is on ridiculous amounts of weed, psychedelics, and uppers... That is to say, not as functional as they could be. There's no "what's worse" contest here; the choice of drug doesn't change the underlying issue. I'm a recovered addict and I work in the field of addiction so I'm speaking from the heart.
I just injected another marijuana in your honor good sir /s
And yet it didn't make you funny, weird 🤷
Having a coping mechanism because we are not hopeful about the future is standard from my experience
Truth.
And that's why it's really not a contest, and we must forgive our parents' generation and a few going back from there.
Boomers love vaping, once it is a product to sell them
I'm honestly so concerned by the amount of energy drinks zoomers drink, plus the vaping. They're less into downers, but fuck me they love those stimulants.
Ngl I have a problem with energy drinks.... been trying to ditch them in favour of coffee
I was a heavy coffee drinker until they found my heart defect.
Now I have no caffeine, doctor's orders, for 22 ish years now.
Sometimes I'll sneak a sip of coffee if I have a migraine, it helps. But God help me I won't sleep that night.
You don't realize how much of a tolerance to and a dependence on caffeine that you build up, until you're off of it for awhile, and try some again.
It really has a powerful effect on you, even if you don't realize it right now.
If I drank an energy drink right now, after being dry for so long, my heart would definitely race and I doubt I'd sleep for two days.
I don't miss caffeine though, honestly. I don't wake up tired anymore, I just, wake up. And drink some water 🤷♂️ then go to work, feeling fine. Not amazingly energized, but not dragging either.. Just.. Normal 🤷♂️
Caffeine is a drug like anything else. If you can get off the stuff for awhile, say 6 months? I bet you'll be amazed at how you feel, and you won't go back.
The vaping is depressing because it feels like all the gains made by anti-smoking have been eroded with more people smoking than ever before.
At least with Vaping there's no overhand smoke iirc, so while it's still bad for you it doesn't damage the people around you too thus it's more of a personal choice
I personally don't mind vaping, since many smokers switched to vaping and people who vape don't emit a passive aura of stench.
Thing is, the vaping is so much worse for heavy metals, so were going to have to dedicate a huge amount of resources treating people for that since it is actually so unchecked
No it's not. The articles on that study severely misrepresented the results. Everything was under OSHA levels, significantly lower than what's in cigarettes, and a few were lower than atmospheric levels.
The formaldehyde study and the glycerin break down study had methodologies so far outside of regular usage that they were designed to produce harmful products.
The popcorn lung scare was full of shit too. Diacetyl and acetyl proponol were only used in tiny amounts in recipes that needed a buttery flavor. Despite the levels being orders of magnitude higher in cigarettes, and the only recorded cases being industrial workers and a guy with a microwave popcorn huffing fetish, the industry dropped it.
The EVALI bullshit was black market THC carts cut with Vitamin E acetate.
The amount of false propaganda against vaping is staggering. It was cutting into tobacco tax revenue, so the FDA killed the industry that was focused on harm reduction.
Read an article a bit ago. Take away: Millennials drink the most but largely kicked the nicotine thing. Gen Z have brought back nicotine in a big way, even causing a resurgence in chewing tobacco. Its all just homosapiens coping, so I say pick your poison and keep doing your best.
Which is weird, cause I can drop drinking no problem, I'm on the nicotine train for life though, 35yo.
That's interesting. I do not have any desire to start smoking, but I probably do drink more than I should. I don't drink daily, but if I have one I'm probably having 2-4. I'm a hair holder than you are fwiw.
And those not doing nicotine are probably doing THC instead. There is a measurable negative impact of legalizing marijuana on alcohol sales
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Love a pint, personally. Drinking with friends trumps most other activities. Currently on my way to see The Prodigy with some old friends I'm meeting in Edinburgh. Looking forward to the pubs and merry laughs as much as the gig, in fact more so.
As a millennial enjoying a cocktail right now, hey, you do you.
we must know different people
This is all part of the puritanical shift that’s happening in some Gen Z circles, this post can’t be talking about millennials. I saw an article a few months ago that stated millennials were the drunkest generation and that while Gen Z as a whole drink less there has been a strong uptick in their consumption recently. Can’t imagine why they might have started drinking more, well besides you know the everything happening in the world
Gen Z is lost to the manosphere and homesteading. Those are used to push right wing puritanical propaganda. I really hope they snap out of it.
...homesteading?
It's basically living off grid, eating what you raise. It mainly draws in women by pushing traditional gender roles propaganda.
If weed is legal drinking goes down.
I wonder if it’s people living in weed “dry” states that are the current outliers.
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It's possible they've only recently started earning enough to be able to afford booze.
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Laughs in British.
By the time Americans are trying alcohol for the first time, some of us are straight up alcoholics and have been trying to quit for several years.
Sadly, this doesn't apply to Wisconsin.
Weird flex.
You can recover by telling us we're dumb for building houses out of wood, or calling us fat.
Ooh! Ooh! Make a school shooter joke! Those are always a hit!
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