Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests

Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• okwithmydecay@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How are they measuring it? I don’t buy alcohol but I drink it. Far cheaper to make my own.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah, I should have been more clear - it’s of course a factor to some degree, but I’d be extremely interested to see a study or similar on the impact income is having on alcohol consumption right now.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean I like alcohol-free beer because I want to socialize without getting smashed, but it is absolutely not cheaper than regular beer

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a ripoff. Zero beer costs what heavily taxed beer costs. It should be cheaper than soda.

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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…

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