re: Will Alcohol Eventually Go The Way Of Cigarettes?

No and quit being a quitter

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Louisianans will need a new source of pride

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So much truth. Next jambalaya will be replaced by pastalaya, mostly because millennials and gen Z can't cook rice worth a damn.

As well it should be. There is no greater strain on the US health system than these fat motherfrickers we see everywhere today, but there’s a tight race for second between alcohol and cigarettes

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Slavery until about 150 years ago

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Still going on in Africa among other shithole countries, you moron.

I'm not drunk enough to read that wall of text, but in response to your initial question my answer is:


"Is you nuts?"

I graduated from LSU and Tulane and practiced law in Atlanta for 20 years (and have had a house and spent a lot of time in Missoula—party/college town) before moving to a less alcohol-centric community for the first time in my adult life.

I haven’t had a drop of alcohol since LSU-Arky when I was at the beach. Had my first beer at the Caterie at age 15 (with a Cheeseburger in Paradise).

I don’t miss it. More a function of age and what it does to my body than any cultural shift though.

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What do you think? Do you think alcohol will eventually go the same way as cigarettes socially, where it goes from being the thing everyone does to being looked down upon? Do you think it will go farther to where alcohol, like cigarettes before, are banned from advertisements, forced to have warnings of how dangerous they are and put behind retail counters?

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absolutely not. The current trend of drinking less alcohol is just that- a trend. It will swing back the other way long before alcohol goes the way of cigarettes.

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Look im not arguing sematics about this or that grou is drinking more or less. But to take that and say alcohol will go away is fricking retarded...

Humans have been consuming alcohol, for over 13,000 years. name something else that humans have been doing for that long outside of eating and sex.

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I agree it's not going away, but the OP isn't wrong that consumption has been lower in the fast few years. Younger generations aren't drinking as much as we did at their age. That's a pretty standard agreement across folks selling the product as well as those who would typically consume. It was going on pre-spike in inflation. It's a pretty common notion among folks in substance use care as well.

Now, vaping is a whole other story.

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name something else that humans have been doing for that long outside of eating and sex.


Slavery until about 150 years ago

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swing and a miss.

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You don’t. People get fricked up all over, but you don’t see binge drinking with explicit purpose of blacking out and raging like you see here

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you ever seen Russian rave parties?

Binge drinking is everywhere.