<story><title>When did people stop being drunk all the time?</title><url>https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Modern people drunk a lot, event recently. In France, 80 years ago, kids would drink wine at school.&lt;p&gt;Drink and driving prevention and repression certainly played a big part in it.&lt;p&gt;But I think other factors came at play:&lt;p&gt;- Science. We know now better about the effect of alcohol. This drove the public opinion into a certain direction. Having the general acceptance this was a bad idea created policies to prevent things like having wine in schools in 1956: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expat-in-france.com&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;wine-drinking-ban-french-school.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expat-in-france.com&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;wine-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Hygiene. If you can drink water safely from the tap, it helps.&lt;p&gt;- Moving to a service based society. If you don&amp;#x27;t have to work in a mine, you drink less.&lt;p&gt;- Other drugs came around. The ones you identify as such. And the one that are more innocent, like sugar, tv shows and social medias.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toshk</author><text>A big shift was also coffee. Works much better for focus work, and also gives a slight high (big in the beginning).&lt;p&gt;The coffee &amp;amp; alcohol cycle is also an interesting one in the West&lt;p&gt;High paced work environment &amp;amp; coffee jacking up your nervous system, and then in the evening using alcohol to calm it down (or other calmers like weed or painkillers).</text></comment>
<story><title>When did people stop being drunk all the time?</title><url>https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Modern people drunk a lot, event recently. In France, 80 years ago, kids would drink wine at school.&lt;p&gt;Drink and driving prevention and repression certainly played a big part in it.&lt;p&gt;But I think other factors came at play:&lt;p&gt;- Science. We know now better about the effect of alcohol. This drove the public opinion into a certain direction. Having the general acceptance this was a bad idea created policies to prevent things like having wine in schools in 1956: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expat-in-france.com&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;wine-drinking-ban-french-school.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;expat-in-france.com&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;wine-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Hygiene. If you can drink water safely from the tap, it helps.&lt;p&gt;- Moving to a service based society. If you don&amp;#x27;t have to work in a mine, you drink less.&lt;p&gt;- Other drugs came around. The ones you identify as such. And the one that are more innocent, like sugar, tv shows and social medias.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HappMacDonald</author><text>Depends on your definition of &amp;quot;innocent&amp;quot;. Sugar is Satan-incarnate (and I am its slave )</text></comment>