![Timeline of alcohol consumption per capita [1024x1024 - 403KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/3hM4I7.png){kind=link}
Im gonna call bullshit, people are way bigger alcoholics today than the 80s. Hard alcohol wasnt even advertised on tv til the 90s. And look at how many types of alcohol and how prevelant it is today.
They used to give alcohol to babies in the 1900's Warnings about alcohol and pregnancy came much later on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alcoholic First attested 1891, from alcohol + -ic.
The chart is liters of alcohol, babies were getting a pacifier wet with booze not chugging baby bottles of it.
People commonly binge drink on a regular basis these days. Women in particular drink way more than they used to.
I can think of two possible explanations:
Aging population. Young people binge drink, not the old ones.
And nerds who never leave their room. That's a recent development.
I'm not talking about quantity but relationship to alcohol, habits
http://static.vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/chart2.png
Data is accurate that's all
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