I wonder how much of it is concerns about health or social responsibility and how much is just it's too goddamned expensive to be able to afford it these days.
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The article does say that income is a factor:
Income also plays a role, with people living in more deprived areas tending to drink less than their more affluent neighbours.
How are they measuring it? I don't buy alcohol but I drink it. Far cheaper to make my own.
Ah, thank you! I should have been more clear - it's of course a factor to some nebulous degree, but I'd be extremely interested to see a study or similar on the impact income is having on alcohol consumption right now.
people living in more deprived areas tending to drink less than their more affluent neighbours.
Not where I live, poor people drink a lot more, they just do without anything else.
I mean I like alcohol-free beer because I want to socialize without getting smashed, but it is absolutely not cheaper than regular beer
It's a bit annoying isn't it? They raised the price of all alcoholic drinks with "minimum price per unit of alchohol" rules, as a disincentive to supermarket special-offer binge-drinking, but then they charge this increased price for the alcohol free versions too...
It's a ripoff. Zero beer costs what heavily taxed beer costs. It should be cheaper than soda.
It depends on the beer. The really good ones do a full brew then extract the alcohol. The cheaper ones tend to be sweeter so haven't done the fermentation.
This is great news. Alcohol is a blight. It is terrible physically, medically, emotionally, cognitively, socially and culturally
It's also the cause of a signficant number of cancers.
More for me. I ain't going down with this sinking ship sober, you can bet your hairy nutsack on that.
Good.
It genuinely is. I say this as a hopeless alcoholic.
I don't see the point in drinking alcohol
It feels nice, can be tasty, and in moderation (which is less than most people believe) not unreasonably harmful.
Not for me anyway. Not judging anyone who does
I don't care. It stinks from 10m away. I'm not pouring it into my mouth.
in moderation (which is less than most people believe) not unreasonably harmful.
There is no safe amount of alcohol consumption.
And there's no safe walking down the street, cycling round town, or climbing outdoors, but we don't need to let ourselves be paralysed by risk.
This explains the increasing attempts to popularise alcohol in children's cartoons.
Downvote as much as you feel like, it is happening. Both alcohol and tobacco.