Teetotally on Trend: Are alcohol-free challenges the new black?
01/29/2021
Raise your hand if you are finishing up Dry January this week. Chances are hardly any of you raised your hand as you read this, not because you think it’s weird to put your hand in the air for a computer or phone screen, but rather because not a lot of Louisianians are down with putting down their favorite libations the first month of the year. Hello, it’s the start of Carnival, people!
A lot of Americans however have embraced the public health campaign that originated eight years ago in the UK. In fact, Forbes reported that, according to surveys from Attest Surveys, Morning Consult and YouGov, approximately 15 percent of Americans planned to give up alcohol in January. That said, for the younger set, it’s not just a Dry January thing. In 2019, Business Insider reported findings from a 2018 study from Berenberg Research indicating “respondents in their teens and early 20s were drinking over 20
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He’s the star and co-writer of Amazon Prime’s
Catastrophe, and came to fame in the early 2010s as one of the first comedians to publish jokes directly on Twitter. One of his best bits is a clueless husband pointing out to his followers that his wife seems to be getting quite close with her karate instructor. This particular message, though, was completely genuine. Delaney wrote: “Imagine this’ll be a tough holiday season mentally/emotionally, even for normal people. As a non-normal, my time-tested tools for surviving hard times include no alochol/drugs, daily exercise, and helping others. I can’t talk myself out of a bad mood, but I can act myself out of one.”