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[Canadian] Gen Z drinks less but uses nicotine more than other generations: report

https://piefed.ca/c/publichealth/p/562272/canadian-gen-z-drinks-less-but-uses-nicotine-more-than-other-generations-report

[Canadian] Gen Z drinks less but uses nicotine more than other generations: report

Excerpt: > Canadians between the ages of 18 and 29 drink the least of any generation, with less than one per cent reporting they drank daily, …

Mar 1 at 10:00pmWeb
Show threadrumschlumpelMar 1
7.3% still seems low. What kind of nicotine addict (which is most people who take it more often than every couple of days) can actually go a day completely without nicotine?
Show threadwoop_woopMar 1
There are social smokers, or people who will have a smoke when drinking, or in random times of stress.
Show threadrumschlumpelMar 2
Never said they don’t exist. But most of the people I personally know who smoked, smoked every day.
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernMar 2
Going for their three times a day social smoke break, but they only smoke then, and after a beer, and after they win a game, and
Show threadGrandwolf319Mar 1
Well, I mean, they ARE less social and more stressed.
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernMar 2
Plus they’re going to die in the water wars anyways
Show threademeralddawn45Mar 2
I mean I didn’t read the article and I don’t doubt the headline is probably actually true as well, but what’s in the excerpt doesn’t match the headline at all. Fewer people in Gen-Z are DAILY drinkers. That’s all the data that’s given. Which makes sense because even people who drink daily in their 50s and 60s probably didn’t drink every day in their 20s.
Show threadSaneMartiganMar 2
In Australia alcohol is heavily taxed whereas illegal disposable vapes are easily available.