To wonder why the young people don't enjoy drinking alcohol

I can't understand why people want to drink. Toy end up feeling dizzy and sick and hungover the next day....it the ruins your day and the older you get the longer it takes to get over your drink session.
I think people nowadays have hobbies and other things that are more enjoyable. Drinking was popular when people had nothing else to do with their time.

A lot of them prefer cocaine

I don't like the way alcohol makes me feel but I do like the taste of a mid white wine.`i will have a small amount with some crisps occasionally

I don't think body purity correlates with being vapid or vain. I do think it's a cultural trend though - hence the no alcohol, no UPFs, gym from as young as teenagers, hydration.

I think the fact that everything you do can end up on social media now may have something to do with it too. Suspect you can’t just be a drunk idiot anymore without someone taking a video of you and reminding you and the world of it the next day!

Drinking is so expensive compared to what it used to be when I was a student

When I was 16 18, I'd pay a tenner for entry to the most popular club in our area and it was all you could drink included in the entry price, from 8pm to 2am.

I think newer generations are more health conscious so that could be it but also could they just be on drugs instead? It’s cheaper. Drinking is so expensive compared to what it used to be when I was a student.

Not drinking alcohol is the new rebellion ;)?

It's not young people it's 25- 30 somethings that have cut down on alcohol

It's expensive
It's unhealthy
It causes dementia long term
You become dependent
It's a depressive
They have responsibilities for children ( as the daughter of an alcoholic I hate seeing kids around drinkers and in pubs)

The list goes on

Find the Huberman lab podcast on drinking, I might help you.
Alcohol is shit and a poison, destroys gut health, and definitely messes with hormones.

I do find it a bit of a myth that young people don't drink. I work at a university, I live in a studenty area and I live near a famous pub crawl route. There are many young people that drink and get drunk.

The culture has changed so much since the 90s & 00s binge drinking culture, kids are stuck to screens in their warm comfortable homes rather than having to actually go out and see their friends, gigs and going out in general are way more expensive than they used to be and binge drinking just isn’t seen as cool any more.

my two don’t drink much, my DS was 17 when he had his first drink at a family wedding in Poland. He started on the vodka! He’s at Uni now and admittedly has had a few boozy nights out where he’s vomited, but he’s been back since mid June and I’ve not seen him drunk one. He only drinks when he goes out (not even once a week) and he’s quite health conscious. DD (16.5) had her first taste of alcohol on the same day, age 14 (sparkling wine to toast, not vodka) and pulled a face and hadn’t had a drop since.

I was quite proud when DS said his girlfriend couldn’t believe he had never seen one of his parents drunk. Especially as I used to be quite a bad drunk back in my day. I hope none of my kids inherit that. My eldest son is 30 and he’s been teetotal 6yrs after admitting he was drinking too much. Very proud of him for giving up the drink. I enjoy an odd half a fruity cider or 1 G&T but I’d rather have a cuppa and early night these days.

It's social media and the fear of being filmed.

It's strange isn't it. I have noticed this as well. I can't explain though. When I think back to my own adolescence (in the 1990s), the young seemed obsessed with alcohol. At my sixth form college, the boys would talk/boast endlessly about how drunk they got at the weekend. Still, if the young ARE drinking less it seems a positive change to me. My local town used to be awful on a Friday and Saturday night – girls screeching and vomiting into the gutter, boys urinating against shop windows or fighting (over nothing). And all thanks to alcohol.

I don’t know the answer to the question but have a read of This Naked Mind and The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober.

I don't think it's necessarily true, I just think they are more sensible about posting pics online than our generation and also the places are different. I teach year 11 seem to be constantly talking about parties and we've run into sixth formers on a night out before too. We know there's certain clubs that staff avoid because the sixth formers go there. During a PSHE lesson with year 9, I was shocked by how many admitted they had access to beer and alcopops at home and how many admitted they were allowed to drink at sleepovers.

Because I don’t find joy in wasting my life rotting my organs and waking up not remembering what happened the night before
I prefer cosy nights in or going out for a meal
I did grow up with alcholics but wouldn’t say that’s why I don’t drink I just care so deeply for my health

That’s simply not true and quite pejorative
Not all youngsters are vapid vain IG hoping for big break

Not drinking doesn’t equate to love the nody as a temple

It's expensive, everything gets recorded and shared nowadays, and they're all obsessed with the purity of their Body Temple.

I don't drink wine at all. It's vile. In fact I'm very fussy about what I will drink, there aren't many alcoholic drinks I like. But I have a good stab at drinking a lot of few I do like.

Probably so embarrassed watching their middle aged parents drinking.

I stopped drinking alcohol 6 years ago due to the hangovers and terrible decisions I made while intoxicated. Stopping drinking is one of the best things I ever did. No night out or booze fest ever feels as good as waking up on a Sunday morning, fresh eyed, enjoying your coffee, going for a walk and just having nice day. I could write pages and pages about why I love not drinking, and why I'm now convinced that alcohol use is a poison that we have somehow accepted into society. I think it's great that young people are seeing it for the destructive substance that it is. I think alcohol is insidious and often worms it's ways into people's lives in very unsettling ways. So many people are enslaved to it and they don't even know. Anyway, I think that the youth are cottoning on to this and can see the many potential issues more clearly than we could.

DS would not put a thief in his head to steal his brains. There were many that didn’t drink at uni. I think the ones that did put them off.