Inspired by another question on this community about “the first time you drank alcohol”, so I was just feeling like I’m the odd one out here.

I personally have never smoked (neither tobacco nor weed), never drank any alcohol. (Parents also don’t do smoking, or drinking, or gambling so I kinda got lucky with the environment I grew up in, I guess…) Is that unusual? Gen Z btw.

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I drink with friends, I don’t smoke but I do hang out in the smoking areas though.

    I wouldn’t say it’s unusual. Can’t say there was much peer pressure to get me to start drinking. It just was an easy conversation starter. “Whatcha drinking?”

    I think it’s also one of the reasons smoking starts so easily. It’s a really easy conversation starter. Gotta light?

    It’s not bad that the next generations are doing it less, but it does suck that they haven’t been replaced with a new conversation starter.