Americans continue to drink less alcohol than ever before, according to a new Gallup poll.Only 54% of U.S. adults surveyed by the analytics firm in July said they ever drink alcohol—the same share as last year and the lowest recorded since Gallup began surveying Americans on this topic in 1939, says Lydia Saad, Gallup’s director of U.S.
social research.“We saw a significant decline in people’s use of alcohol last year, but whether that was a one-time reaction or a trend, we had to wait and see,” Saad says. “This year’s result tells us that whatever is happening out there is a sustained change.
Drinking has gone down across all age groups.”More public awareness of alcohol’s health risks could be prompting Americans to drink less, the poll results suggest. A little more than half of American…
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