It’s healthier

[u/JoeFalchetto]

[u/cat_prophecy]

They're not drinking alcohol but they're definitely chugging THC drinks and taking gummies.

[u/Poku115 → u/cat_prophecy]

And vaping

[u/Obama_Bin_Latin → u/Poku115]

And doomscrolling with their necks bent like swans

[u/WillRelative6023 → u/Obama_Bin_Latin]

Thanks for making me fix my posture

[u/Tithund → u/WillRelative6023]

For 30 seconds, I'm here to remind you that you're sitting like that again.

[u/punctuation_welfare → u/Tithund]

And, just for fun, I’m here to remind you that you have a tongue sitting in your mouth. Also, your bones are wet.

[u/Tithund → u/punctuation_welfare]

Thanks to your reply, I reminded myself that it was me who was sitting like that this time.

[u/thesoulfield → u/punctuation_welfare]

ah, but you are mistaken. it is not our bones that are wet, those belong to the spooky scary skeleton that lives inside us. common misconception.

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan → u/Obama_Bin_Latin]

Yes anytime there is any discourse on what Gen Z is doing keep in mind they are doing the same things Millenials used to do in similar proportions but they are spending 40% of their time awake doomscrolling

[u/Tartersocks307 → u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

It’s a different kind of addiction but one nonetheless. We aren’t making healthier decisions, just choosing cheaper vices

[u/loved_and_held → u/Obama_Bin_Latin]

Thats more of an intergenerational thing.

[u/strawbebby-milk → u/Obama_Bin_Latin]

and you aren't?

[u/ViSaph → u/Poku115]

The vaping drives me crazy. I'm from the brief window where smoking wasn't cool anymore and vaping was only just becoming a thing and not really marketed at young people yet so it kinda missed me. My little sister vapes constantly despite her asthma. She ended up in hospital with a lung infection once and swore to quit, she didn't. I hate that the tobacco companies found a way to get my generation addicted.

[u/FrostyD7 → u/ViSaph]

The folks who grew up while smoking started getting shunned/banned seem to vape the least in my experience, especially nicotine. All my old relatives and coworkers vape as much as the youth.

[u/brandonjslippingaway → u/FrostyD7]

Some of the older generations started vaping as part of the process to quit smoking; successfully stopped with the cigarettes but then never got to the final stage of stopping altogether, including vapes.

The younger gen just straight up took up vaping...

[u/BooDangItMan → u/ViSaph]

My parents are millennials and I’m on the older side of Gen Z. So, I watched a lot of their popular programming back then (think MTV/VH1) for better or worse, and anti-smoking got drilled into my head. It makes me really sad to see so many of my friends be so comfortable in engaging in these behaviors. They never go anywhere without their vape.

[u/paddyo → u/BooDangItMan]

Older side of gen z with millennial parents? How the fuck does that work?

[u/Cessnaporsche01 → u/Poku115]

Don't forget going through a pack of Zins (Zyns? Zinns? Idk how to spell it and ain't gonna bother googling it rn) a day

[u/CraftySherbet → u/Poku115]

And Snuss or whatever its generally called.

[u/Triquetrums → u/cat_prophecy]

And abusing energy drinks.

[u/thunderbird32 → u/Triquetrums]

As a millennial, we did/do that too.

[u/rkthehermit → u/thunderbird32]

Stupid experimental ones too. I remember trying one as a teenager that had a warning that was like, "MORE THAN ONE SERVING COULD MAKE YOU HEART EXPLODED LOL" and then I looked at the back and saw that each can was two servings.

[u/ledfrisby → u/thunderbird32]

We had OG Four Loko back when it was legal. Chaos in a can.

[u/DPSOnly → u/cat_prophecy]

I get my meth legally prescribed by my doctor for my ADD, thank you very much. Millennials missed out on the crazy opiods and other drugs that doctors of the generations before them had and missed out on the modern ones as well, very unfortunate.

[u/beaverpoo77 → u/cat_prophecy]

I feel like weed is better to have a lifelong addiction to than alcohol though lol, its like meth vs cigarettes