holdsteady
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I guess that depends where you sit on the age spectrum and who you think are "youngsters". I mean coppers look about 12 these days.
Oddly enough overall consumption has dropped marginally since 2000 from 11.8 ltrs to 9,7 according to Statista.
People in their late teens and twenties are youngsters to me.
That a more than marginal drop, around 17%. I would say the smoking ban is behind a change in lifestyle choices, cheap supermarket booze, a rise in the cost of living and more stuff to do in general when it comes to pubs closing, if you want to go to the pub for a pint unless you are a chain smoker its not that hard to step outside for a fag, it only put off those people who can't go more than five minutes without one, most of those people who stopped going to the pub who fit that description will be dead by now as well so its hardly an on going problem.
The Instagram generation are more image driven and have more expenses than I did when I was young and went to the pub every Friday and Saturday so won't have the money to do that. Pre drinking was more of a problem ten years ago, nightclubs have shut down in similar numbers to pubs so where would they be pre drinking to go to?