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re: Do teens drink alcohol more now compared to the 80s and 90s?

Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:22 pm to
Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:22 pm to
No idea empirically. In the 80s in high school, some of us were drinking at school. My locker was a freaking bar.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:22 pm to
Less. Hell i was a teen in early 2000s and we were wild as frick
Posted by cle70
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:22 pm to
I graduated in 1988. We did our far share of drinking. Sitting in parking lots hanging out. This was before cell phones so we actually had to stop making loops and park in a parking lot and set on truck tailgates and drink beer and Boone’s Farms and visit with our friends. If only I or we new at the time that this was the best times of our life
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:24 pm to
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When we were 16, as soon as we left home on the weekends we were drinking beer.


shite we were drinking a handle of Kentucky Tavern and poppin lorcets. End up passed out naked in the woods in a tent with 2 girls after cutting trees down with a chainsaw and a couple dents in the truck with no clue how that happened
Posted by Pepe Lepew
Looney tuned .....
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:24 pm to
Not as much as we did in the 70’s
Posted by scottydoesntknow
Member since Nov 2023
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 7:26 pm to
Id wager much much less. Drinking would require actually socializing and prying tiktok away from their faces
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 8:37 pm to
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Nobody drinks like we drank on the early 2000's - fight me


80’s teenagers chuckle at you.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 8:38 pm to
They couldn't possibly drink more than we did in the '80s.
Posted by RealDawg
Dawgville
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 8:42 pm to
12 year olds today can’t even handle a daiquiri.
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 8:45 pm to
In the 1965 period in Louisiana, the legal drinking age was 5 foot 3 inches. Standard based on being tall enough to put money on counter
Posted by pelicanpride
Houston
Member since Oct 2007
1299 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 9:02 pm to
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Considerably less. If they are drinking alcohol then that means they’re actually socializing which does not exist anymore.


This x 1,000. They drink less, use drugs less, and have sex less. Sounds good on paper until you realize the reason is that they aren’t going out anymore. They are completely addicted to their phones and the most depressed generation on record.
Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 9:07 pm to
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use drugs less
as a high school teacher I would say this is not true
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 9:15 pm to
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In the 1965 period in Louisiana, the legal drinking age was 5 foot 3 inches. Standard based on being tall enough to put money on counter


The italian liquor stores in S'port area just charged you a little more if you looked underage.

Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27005 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 9:15 pm to
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fight me


19 year old me would. Then drink your arse under the table.
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
14290 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 9:22 pm to
Camping out in the woods was our activity of choice to hide our beer drinking when we were 13-15 years old. We’d hike out to one of the usual spots, put up a few tents, and have an older kid drive to the store and get beer. There was zero chance a cop or parents could drive up on us in the woods and none of them knew the trails. We sat around the fire and drank.

Do kids still camp out now?
This post was edited on 3/23/24 at 9:45 pm
Posted by pelicanpride
Houston
Member since Oct 2007
1299 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 9:25 pm to
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as a high school teacher I would say this is not true


See Table 1 (page 72). They party less pretty much across the board. Also, the 90s were lit. Monitoring the Future
Posted by OK Roughneck
The Sooner State
Member since Aug 2021
9381 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 10:10 pm to
Hope they don't drink as much as we did in the 80's in HS. We were lucky none of us or our friends were ever hurt or killed doing stupid stuff. A few fights and wrecked vehicles but we all survived.
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
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Posted on 3/23/24 at 10:11 pm to
My anecdotal experience is that kids these days are way more well behaved and responsible than I was.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260877 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 10:13 pm to
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My anecdotal experience is that kids these days are way more well behaved and responsible than I was.


We were a bit wild and free. It was more tolerated then though.
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31507 posts
Posted on 3/23/24 at 10:27 pm to
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We were a bit wild and free. It was more tolerated then though.


Yeah, and I’m a bit of a hypocrite now. For the last 7 years, I’ve mostly not been a drinker. Drunk people and drinking culture now exhaust me.
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