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.Drink and driving prevention and repression certainly played a big part in it.But I think other factors came at play:- 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: https://expat-in-france.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wine-...- Hygiene. If you can drink water safely from the tap, it helps.- Moving to a service based society. If you don't have to work in a mine, you drink less.- Other drugs came around. The ones you identify as such. And the one that are more innocent, like sugar, tv shows and social medias.