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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.

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Elder millennial. I think we were the last gen where cigarettes, booze, and drugs were seen as "cool". Younger people seemed to have figured it out early how much of a fucking waste of time and money all three are.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Who is drinking because they think it makes them look cool? Drinking at home isn't to impress others.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Groups of teenagers on a Friday night in the late 90s/early 00s.

I agree with you on the nicotine and alcohol, but you will have to pry my pot from my cold dead hands.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

I'd agree with the "cool" factor for drugs and booze, and maybe it's regional or class-based, but cigarettes always seemed trashy when I was growing up