USA: Alcohol consumption at 90-year low

Across the US, drinking rates have plunged to their lowest level in 90 years. 

Only 54 percent of adults said they had a drink last month, according to Gallup data. 

That’s the lowest level since the polling group began collecting the figures in 1939.

Only 46 percent of Republican voters reported having any alcohol in all of last year, a one third drop from 2023. 

By comparison Democrat drinkers only decline by five percent in the same period. 

‘Americans’ drinking habits are shifting amid the medical world’s reappraisal of alcohol’s health effects,’ Gallup said of the findings. 

‘After decades of relative steadiness in the proportion of US adults who drink, [we have] documented three consecutive years of decline in the US drinking rate as research supporting the ‘no amount of alcohol is safe’ message mounts.’

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