Saturday 14 March 2015

Young people are drinking less. Why?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/20/young-people-are-drinking_n_6720290.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-universities-education&ir=UK+Universities+%26+Education


Eugene Smith has posed a very interesting post on 13/3/15.

It’s true to say that almost all the teens drink alcohol but the ONS (Office for National Statistics) has discovered a downward in this trend.

Some explanations of this stunning fact are because of the rising proportion of religiosity. For example, the Muslims (7% of young people in UK) have largely forbid alcohol consumption. Moreover, this is happening in UK because of the change in the ethnic make up in the country as well as the high immigration levels.

Another point of the fact is by reasons of the economics situations as well as the bad thought of the university student’s party. That is to say that many people have in mind that university students are always having fun on parties. A student has told to the Huffington pot that this isn’t true. They only go out on parties in special occasions as Halloween or birthdays. Nevertheless, alcohol is being replaced for coffee, which, in my point of view, can be worst. But that’s another topic.

Other reason of this decreasing alcohol drinkers are due to the traumatising bad experiences from hangovers/ stomach-pumps/ love of someone loved, due to the use of social media that makes young people spend more time at home, at the drink ware influence groups and the rise in civility as nicer youth, kinder and more well-balanced one.


As far as I’m concerned, I’m extremely glad on this change because I’m one of those persons who think that alcohol needs to be replaced. I hope this contraction goes ahead in many others countries and that at the end the percentage of drinkers be too much lower than what it is today.



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