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.

If weed is legal drinking goes down.

I wonder if it’s people living in weed “dry” states that are the current outliers.

It's possible they've only recently started earning enough to be able to afford booze.

I would doubt that fact about millennials without a source to back it up. It just doesn’t track with experience, but I could definitely be wrong.

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.

used to drink alot when i had no future prospects.

Acting a fool in public today means high chance someone records a video of you at your worst.

I personally don't mind vaping, since many smokers switched to vaping and people who vape don't emit a passive aura of stench.

At least with Vaping there's no second hand 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 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.

But that's mostly because the US supplements industry is an unregulated disaster.

"trough"? That's a new one to add to this thing:

English is a tough language. It can be mastered through thorough thought though, while you sit next to a trough.

Safe level is zero but there's a gradient of severity

IDK, with the amount of drunk driving in the US I’ve always wondered if we shouldn’t flip the two so that people have experience with how alcohol affects them before they have the ability to get behind the wheel of a car.

Its so expensive how can this be?

Ooh! Ooh! Make a school shooter joke! Those are always a hit!

Well yes, there are several other policies and mannerisms of yours besides the 21-year-old MLDA that are quite frankly inscrutable to me.

Americans don't even build houses out of wood anymore, we build houses out of plastic and sawdust.

Is our wooden house situation old-hat now? It seems like the problem is just going to get worse as time goes on

Majority is teens; but frankly, there are instances where children drink. At least hard liquor isnt as popular as relatively-low alcohol drinks.