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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
One issue I suspect is how the North American youth culture of rebellion will respond. For example, look at alcohol use in youth. They drink to get drunk when parents aren't looking. Many other countries that have a more liberal view of alcohol consumption don't seem to have this same problem is. Continental Europe (Russia excluded). Having spent a significant portion of my youth there, the attitude is different. They certainly enjoy drinking, even binging at times, but it's not necessarily the intent as it is here. The drunkest person at the bar there is looked at with embarrassment often, not the ideal
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I think the paradigm has started to shift here as well. Not necessarily in my age group, but I've noticed people even just a couple of years younger than me don't really regard getting wasted as something cool. They see it as something their loser parents do.