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Americans’ Alcohol Drinking Plummets to All-Time Low

Roughly 46 percent of poll respondents say they don’t drink at all, with more people believing even “one or two drinks” is bad for your health.

Fewer Americans are boozing it up than at any other point in almost 90 years. Analytics firm Gallup, which has been surveying U.S. drinking habits since 1939, say its latest study shows only 54 percent of respondents reported consuming any alcoholic beverages at all. The trend appears to be driven by a record-high 58 percent of people who believe even moderate drinking damages their health, compared to 28 percent back in 2015, with many of them being young adults. Speaking about the new findings, Gallup’s director of social research, Lydia Saad, said changes to public health advice over time may well be the reason older Americans are proving slower to catch up in abandoning the bottle. “Older folks may be a little more hardened in terms of the whiplash that they get with recommendations,” Saad told CBS. “Whereas, for young folks, this is the environment that they’ve grown up in. In many cases, it would be the first thing young adults would have heard as they were coming into adulthood.”