Is gen z drinking more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the above posters saying NO WAY NOT MY GEN Z kid! hundreds of gen x'ers at a beach caused a ton of trouble drinking and staying out to the late hours.

https://www.tiktok.com/@mommaevilone/video/7524415225928404238

Uh ok to you and OP? Overall stats show gen z drinks way less the previous generations (not zero), but thanks for posting some random TikTok.

[Anonymous]

Who cares? They are doomed anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean statistics say Gen Z drinks significantly less that previous generations.

https://time.com/7203140/gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol/

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-gen-z-is-drinking-less

Young people have been getting drunk forever. Seeing some drunk young people isn't remotely new.

Yep this.

[Anonymous]

Well, my Gen X friends are making up for it!

[Anonymous]

Is gen z drinking more?

I hope so. Maybe there's a personality in there after all.

[Anonymous]

I feel boomers drink so much in comparison.

Gen Z is not keeping the bars and clubs busy.

[Anonymous]

Drinking less doesn’t mean not drinking at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen z smokes weed more than drinking.

That and/or they're all numbed out of SSRIs and xanax scripts (downers) ... and half of them have Adderall scripts (uppers).

[Anonymous]

I'm social media friends with kids' closest friends, so my feed is full of UMC high achieving 19 to 23 year old kids. I assure you they're boozing, especially White Claw, High Noon, and other fruity soda-ish canned cocktails. Those cans are in like every photo of the social scenes at the beach and lakes they're at this summer. The "mature" girlies are often drinking wine.

I think bars are dead because young adults don't really spontaneously mix with random people anyone. They have their core friend groups and group chats and online gamer friends -- if they venture off with randoms like say via a dating app, they're going to vet them on social media and via mutuals first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm social media friends with kids' closest friends, so my feed is full of UMC high achieving 19 to 23 year old kids. I assure you they're boozing, especially White Claw, High Noon, and other fruity soda-ish canned cocktails. Those cans are in like every photo of the social scenes at the beach and lakes they're at this summer. The "mature" girlies are often drinking wine.

I think bars are dead because young adults don't really spontaneously mix with random people anyone. They have their core friend groups and group chats and online gamer friends -- if they venture off with randoms like say via a dating app, they're going to vet them on social media and via mutuals first.

I don’t think people are getting wasted or black out drunk regularly anymore which is a good thing. Having two or three seltzers with very little alcohol in them a week probably is less alcohol than prior generations.

[Anonymous]

Nope, about the same.

Also, consider changing demographics.

Religions like Islam will cause a drop in alcohol sales in certain areas, however many Hispanics are heavy drinkers and will cause rise in drinking in other areas. Also certain ethnicities traditionally don't drink as much, such as people from certain Asian countries who lack the enzymes to metabolize alcohol properly.

Blacks and Whites in the USA are shown to remain pretty steady in alcohol consumption across all generations, though traditionally peaks occur in a persons 20s and after retirement in 60-70s.

What IS increasing is drug use such as marijuana and prescription medications, as well as opioids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope, about the same.

Also, consider changing demographics.

Religions like Islam will cause a drop in alcohol sales in certain areas, however many Hispanics are heavy drinkers and will cause rise in drinking in other areas. Also certain ethnicities traditionally don't drink as much, such as people from certain Asian countries who lack the enzymes to metabolize alcohol properly.

Blacks and Whites in the USA are shown to remain pretty steady in alcohol consumption across all generations, though traditionally peaks occur in a persons 20s and after retirement in 60-70s.

What IS increasing is drug use such as marijuana and prescription medications, as well as opioids.

Op here. The drunk girls and one in the pavement scenario were white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope, about the same.

Also, consider changing demographics.

Religions like Islam will cause a drop in alcohol sales in certain areas, however many Hispanics are heavy drinkers and will cause rise in drinking in other areas. Also certain ethnicities traditionally don't drink as much, such as people from certain Asian countries who lack the enzymes to metabolize alcohol properly.

Blacks and Whites in the USA are shown to remain pretty steady in alcohol consumption across all generations, though traditionally peaks occur in a persons 20s and after retirement in 60-70s.

What IS increasing is drug use such as marijuana and prescription medications, as well as opioids.

Op here. The drunk girls and one in the pavement scenario were white.

Ok, cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm social media friends with kids' closest friends, so my feed is full of UMC high achieving 19 to 23 year old kids. I assure you they're boozing, especially White Claw, High Noon, and other fruity soda-ish canned cocktails. Those cans are in like every photo of the social scenes at the beach and lakes they're at this summer. The "mature" girlies are often drinking wine.

I think bars are dead because young adults don't really spontaneously mix with random people anyone. They have their core friend groups and group chats and online gamer friends -- if they venture off with randoms like say via a dating app, they're going to vet them on social media and via mutuals first.

I have two kids in college (yes, good ones) and they report tons of drinking (to excess), vaping weed AND, most surprising to me, smoking cigarettes. Only two data points, but from where I sit, seems like all of this is still going on plenty.

[Anonymous]

Are half of them still children? I would expect them to drink more as a group as they come of age.