Gen Z drinks less but uses nicotine more than other generations: report
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Canadians aged 18-29 drink the least of any generation, with less than one per cent reporting they drank daily, a report by insurance firm PolicyMe shows.
Gen Z Canadians are drinking less than older generations — but they’re using more nicotine products, a recent insurance report has found.
Canadians between the ages of 18 and 29 drink the least of any generation, with less than one per cent reporting they drank daily, a report by insurance firm PolicyMe shows. This was in contrast to the age group over 60, in which almost five per cent said they drink daily.
The results of the report are based on self-reported lifestyle choices from insurance applications.
However, this age group had the highest reported daily use of nicotine products (7.3 per cent) of any age group, the report said. In all other age groups, only five to six per cent said they use nicotine every day.
This includes all forms of nicotine use: vaping, e-cigarettes, traditional cigarettes and products like chewing tobacco.
While traditional cigarette smoking is not as popular as it once was, Canadian Lung Association CEO Sarah Butson said younger Canadians are being enticed by newer products.
“What we have seen is an increase in the number of young people that are entering the nicotine market for the first time. This means things like e-cigarette use,” she said.
A 2022 Statistics Canada report found that younger Canadians were far more likely to have vaped in the past 30 days (14 per cent of youth aged 15 to 19 and 20 per cent of those aged 20 to 24) compared with four per cent of Canadians aged 25 and older.
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