When did people stop being drunk all the time?
Modern people drunk a lot, event recently. In France, 80 years ago, kids would drink wine at school.<p>Drink and driving prevention and repression certainly played a big part in it.<p>But I think other factors came at play:<p>- 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: <a href="https://expat-in-france.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wine-drinking-ban-french-school.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://expat-in-france.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wine-...</a><p>- Hygiene. If you can drink water safely from the tap, it helps.<p>- Moving to a service based society. If you don't have to work in a mine, you drink less.<p>- Other drugs came around. The ones you identify as such. And the one that are more innocent, like sugar, tv shows and social medias.