Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wonder how much of it is concerns about health or social responsibility and how much is just it’s too goddamned expensive to be able to afford it these days.

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  • okwithmydecay@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • 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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• witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s also the cause of a signficant number of cancers.

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  More for me. I ain’t going down with this sinking ship sober, you can bet your hairy nutsack on that.

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• vpol@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It genuinely is. I say this as a hopeless alcoholic.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t see the point in drinking alcohol

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  • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It feels nice, can be tasty, and in moderation (which is less than most people believe) not unreasonably harmful.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t care. It stinks from 10m away. I’m not pouring it into my mouth.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      in moderation (which is less than most people believe) not unreasonably harmful.

      There is no safe amount of alcohol consumption.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not for me anyway. Not judging anyone who does

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This explains the increasing attempts to popularise alcohol in children’s cartoons.

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