This chart has been floating around, and I find it interesting to speculate about the reason for this shift.
Have attitudes changed this much? Do teens have less independence or fewer places to go to do these things? Are parents more involved in teens’ lives? Was vaping excluded in the study?
3.2 beer which 18-year-olds could legally buy was a thing. Looks like 1984 was when the federal government mostly put an end to it.
I don’t understand the downvotes; I’m pointing out that many states legally sold beer to 18-year-olds, many of whom would be high school seniors, during at least the first part of the chart.
Literally 1984