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    Laut NHS-Umfrage meiden immer mehr Erwachsene Alkohol


    Laut NHS-Umfrage meiden immer mehr Erwachsene Alkohol

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dk2xp137zo

    Von Alert-One-Two

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    1. Extreme_Kale_6446 on

      Very visible in financial results of companies like Heineken, BrewDog etc.

    2. AverageFishEye on

      I still drink but i cut it down a lot. Our bodies are not made to process the huge amounts of highly concentrated alcohol that were common just 2 decades ago.

      People may say: „oh but they drank beer and wine all day in ye olde days!“. Yeah but the beer was often watered down („small beer“) and wine as well.

      Furthermore: only modern strains of yeast even allow us to have the beverages reach the alcohol concentrations that they do now

    3. Georgist-Minarchist on

      less purchasing power means people buy less, who would have though

    4. trendysticks on

      Good. Alcohol is literal poison and it’s mental that drinking it has been so normalised in our society.

    5. lordnacho666 on

      It’s expensive to live in town, so now I love where I have to drive a short bit as part of my trip home.

      So the booze company loses out to the parking company.

    8. JeffBroccoli on

      I stopped drinking about 20 years ago. Overall the cost, the negative health impact, the hangovers, and changing social norms put me off doing it. I’ll have the very rare cold beer at a sunny barbecue or a special occasion or something, but other than that, I don’t touch the stuff. Just does nothing for me

    9. iMatthew1990 on

      I’m 36 I’ve been completely sober except 1 or 2 very special occasions since I lost my dad to alcoholism at 18. I have never regretted it, not once. I’m currently about 9 years since the last time any alcohol was consumed. I feel I’m a rarity and still get the absolute confusion from a lot of people when they find out I don’t drink. So not sure where the others are lol.

      Side note: I never judge anyone that does drink, this isn’t a Vegan situation. Though I do actively choose to stay away or leave parties early before the proper rowdiness that alcohol can cause begins.

    10. AnarchoBratzdoll on

      Makes sense. Alcohol is a depressant. We’re all already depressed 

    11. Mista948 on

      One decent pint on a Saturday evening will do me. I no longer see a reason to go out and get pissed (I’m 25).

    12. Superb_Brain_7391 on

      Lost most of my interest in drinking a long time ago when I started realising how much pressure other people would put on you to have a drink if you didn’t want one. My immediate response to that sort of thing is ‚well I wasn’t sure but now you’ve totally put me off.‘

      Went even further when I started wearing a fitness watch and could see how even one drink would affect my sleep and resting heart rate for a night. 2-3 drinks was showing results several nights later!

    13. unbelievablydull82 on

      I’m a good drunk, so much so that when my kids saw me drunk for the first time a couple of years ago, my teenage daughter said I should become an alcoholic, as I am far more relaxed after a few drinks. Having said that, I can go years without a drink, it’s just not my thing. I grew up with an alcoholic mother, and a father that drank at least twenty pints a week, and it was common to find winos passed out on the street, no matter the weather. It’s nice to not see that as much, it’s definitely an area that society has changed for the better

    14. Confident-Ant-3763 on

      My father would buy and drink 6 cans of beer a night every night no days off. His sweat would smell high pitch and rancid, his farts which were constant would smell like irritable bowels from inflammation of the gut lining. He would get drunk every night and be abusive, passive aggressive and just a mean spirited man. When I was a teen I drank as it was what we did. It was when I was 20 years old I said sod it. Never looked back, no regrets.

    15. New-Connection4613 on

      Not only for health reasons but on barely above minimum wage I’m too poor. I can have an edible which gives me a nice buzz for general hours and doesn’t leave me feeling out of place at the pub and that only costs about £4.50 a go when I buy a bag of gummies.

    16. urbanspaceman85 on

      Been Cali Sober for the last few months; feel much healthier than when I was drinking.

    17. a_bone_to_pick on

      Massive cost of living and social lives lived out online (rather than face to face) mean people are going for a drink less and less. Alcoholism is bad, but we’re losing that sense of community that people had around pubs. Obviously an argument to be had about what we socialise around in physical spaces, but it doesn’t feel like anything is replacing those pubs except vacant buildings or blocks of flats.

    18. Bu7n57 on

      They aren’t avoiding it, they can’t afford it, at +£6-7 a pint do you blame them

    19. IKLYSP on

      I love alcohol but it’s too moreish – if I have a pint I’m not just having one pint. So I avoid it unless it’s a special occasion these days. Can’t be drinking the time away indoors.

    20. ToggledSwitch9 on

      Drink is definitely down, well, binge drinking in younger generations but from what I see and hear cocaine use is way up.

    21. Repulsive-Side-8165 on

      Culture for it just isn’t here anymore. But when I go abroad, sign me up.

    23. gogul1980 on

      I barely drink anymore. At 45 I have enough medical crap I don’t have to add to it.

    24. PomPomBumblebee on

      I’ve never been a huge fan of it and I don’t like spending my own money on it.

      It’s only in the summer the rare sunny summer Friday evening after work I’d maybe join my husband for a drink with work colleagues who’ve bagged a nice spot in a local bar and his work is paying a tab I will actively go for a drink. Christmas and the rare tipple at a meal out but I don’t drink wine so I usually just have some fizz or water, very rarely booze.

      I don’t go out in the evenings that often and I probably don’t like hangovers at my age. I spend my money on daft things for myself I really shouldn’t spend on but they make me happy so sod it.

    25. Dave0356 on

      I’ve cut it down in favour of weed. Weed is so mix better and more relaxing! And no hangover. Cheaper too.

    26. WeakDoughnut8480 on

      Welp guess I’m the only one in the thread who enjoys drinking. 

      But I stopped this month after Xmas and yeah it’s been fine. 

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