[Redway]

Young Gen Zs (let’s say people born from 2003 onwards) don’t go in as deep alcohol and smoking-wise as baby boomers, Gen X, millennials or zillenials to be fair. They’re more distracted by the broadening of the LGBTQ+ category (if they’re about it) and vaping than anything else. A 16-year-old’s birthday party in 2000 or even 2014 would probably have at least some cider or WKD (at the very least someone would’ve snuck one in) but today’s teenagers are okay with soda and tend to just wait till they’re 18 to get litty-lit. Every generation moans about current teenagers but these ones live in a world where it’s not easy to get away with drinking and smoking under 18 anymore and they’ve lost interest by-and-large.