Why are young people drinking less - and how are habits changing? - video Dailymotion

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As alcohol consumption among young people declines and beer prices continue to rise, we ask locals why they think drinking is becoming less common and how social habits are shifting.

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00:00I think there are a mixture of things probably impacting drinking in young people.

00:06One is affordability, people are kind of struggling to pay rent, get a decent job, a night out

00:12now is really expensive.

00:15General health considerations, some people want to be fitter and there's better things

00:18to spend their money on.

00:20A lot of the youth, they do want to change and sometimes it takes maybe like, you know,

00:25examples like footballers or fighters who've been there and changed it, you know, that

00:31they now are looking for better ways and obviously when incidents happen, people do learn from

00:36it.

00:37Price, purely on price, they can't afford it anymore.

00:41And I think young people socialise, I don't think young people socialise outside their

00:46houses as much, I think there's more online and I think there is for some young people,

00:52certainly my son and his wife, just don't enjoy drinking anymore.

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