Millennial here. Never smoked, never tempted to either. Don’t like the taste of alcohol unless it’s in deserts, so no temptation there. Tried weed once, also that is not for me. Heck, I even avoid caffeine most days so I don’t build up a tolerance for days when I actually need it.

I don’t drink alcohol or use tobacco/nicotine in any forms. As to why, I simply don’t enjoy the experience of either. When I was a teenager I was offered and tried a cigarette. I hated the tobacco smoke flavor, it made my lungs hurt, and I didn’t like headrush feeling. For alcohol, I drank a few times as a young adult and even got drunk a couple of times. I didn’t particularly enjoy that mental and physical experience either. Even after that I drank beer a few times socially, but realized I wasn’t doing it because I liked it, but to “fit in” or impress other people.

While still in my early 20’s, I realized that if the only way those people would like me or associate with me was because I would drink, I didn’t need them in my life. I stopped drinking entirely, and I’ll admit at the beginning I did get socially pressured, but when I didn’t relent, no one ever got upset with me nor did I ever lose any friendships because I didn’t want to drink. I made it clear then, as I do today, that I don’t care if anyone else wants to drink, even if that drinking is around me. I have no judgment on them for what they choose to consume (as long as they aren’t hurting others in doing so). I will even buy alcohol for people I know that drink as gifts, because I know it is something they enjoy and thats what gifts are for. I have a decent collection of unopened bourbon bottles that I’ve never even tasted. I can get some uncommon bottles now and then. I’ve never had someone complain about getting a nice bottle of bourbon.

I will say I don’t really like hanging out with smokers in confined spaces, but that has nothing to do with a judgment about their personal choices. I just don’t like my clothing and hair smelling like cigarette smoke after hanging out with them.

GenX BTW.

I drink beer cuz look around.

Millennial here. I like not being a public nuisance and having functional lungs, a liver, and what little of my mental faculties I haven’t lost to mental illness, so no I don’t partake

Grew up in a house with 3 smokers. I breathed second hand smoke for more than 30 years. (Total, not consecutive)

I won’t ever smoke cigarettes, smoke cigars occasionally, (been more than 4 years, but I still have a bunch in my humidor.

I will say that after I finally left that environment, it took about 6 months to realize what cigarettes actual smell like on clothes from the perspective of someone who isn’t noseblind to the smell.

Good damn I didn’t know how I just have smelled to other people, doing smoke around other people who don’t want to be around it please, that caused me more problems than I ever knew

Tobacco: no absolutely not, I hate the smell and just don’t see the point.

Alcohol: extremely rarely, I have a well stocked bar at home, and used to drink alcohol a few times a month, but in the last few years two things happened.

1. I got a driving license and a car, I was 35 and got it late. I have a zero tolerance for alcohol and driving, no light beer, nothing, if I am going to drive I will simply not drink any alcohol. And since I got the driving license and car I want to be able to get in the car at any point in case of emergencies and not have to worry about having had alcohol.
2. I realized that alcohol was just simply annoying to me, I get hot, have trouble sleeping and the next day I am really tired and slow to get going, even after just having drunk a small ammonit. I apparently am a lightweight, and that it perfectly fine, alcohol doesn’t mean much to me, so I don’t feel like I am missing anything. I like the bottles of alcohol I have so I will save them for a bar shelf that looks cool. I do participate in toasts or celebrations when I know I won’t drive, I even have four bottles of cheap champagne with customized ribbons for Trump, Putin, Musk and Orban to toast with when the world is spared their existance, but that is the extent of my alcohol consumption.

I stopped smoking. I drink beer and whiskey.

I’m on the Gen Z/Millennial border for reference.

I’ve done a few puffs of cigars at big celebrations with friends/family, but I’ve never smoked a whole cigar or used any other tobacco. Never really cared much for the idea, and the little bit I did try didn’t make me want to do more.

I’ll drink when I’m at a social gathering, but it’s rarely ever enough to get drunk. I don’t like beer, which is frequently the only alcohol offered, so there are quite a few times where I don’t drink anything. I never really drank outside of social situations before, but I’ve recently started to appreciate the taste of good bourbon, so I’ll occasionally pour some at home.

I enjoy my whiskeys, wine, beer and various other alcoholic beverages. They taste good and when enjoyed properly are part of a certain type of fun evening.

I don’t like tobacco all that much, but holy fuck do I crave the stuff. My lungs can’t take it anymore and I was always a very sparing user (ie the jackass who bums a cig maybe once a year, but never buys her own pack), so it’s been over a year since my last.

And yeah if my answer didn’t make that clear, I’m a millennial

I’ve never smoked and I don’t ever plan to (it can lessen the effect of HRT) but I do drink alcohol occasionally. Meaning I drink maybe one cocktail or longdrink every two or three months.

You mentioned your generation so ill put myself as xennial.

I dont use tobacco at all. Never seen the appeal of it myself.

I have a beer on occasion and sometimes use wine in cooking.

I use weed regularly for sleep and shoulder pain

Tobacco, no. I was on a construction crew one summer, everyone else chain smoked, I didn’t, then I went off to college and a week later couldn’t figure out why I was craving the smell of cigarettes. That was a rough semester.

Alcohol, 2-3 units/drinks a month. A glass of wine with the week’s fancy meal, maybe but that’s about it.

Cannabis, wake and bake. I use it medically, but could probably cut back a little. Not much tho, it manages a life threatening condition well enough my case got put into the literature.

The cult I grew up in was straight edge without all the ethics, so like even coffee was a big deal when I got free of that one

I started smoking and drinking at 12 because I thought it would make me look cool and developed a pretty bad drinking habit in high school and college. After college it got worse and there were some severe consequences. Finally got sober at 30. I’d been trying to quit smoking for years but would always light up when I’d had a few beers and since that was pretty much all the time, I wasn’t able to quit smoking until I quit drinking.

I haven’t touched either in almost 27 years and I’m so much better off for it.

No to both.

No to smoking because it stinks, it’s expensive, and it deteriorates everything around you and inside you.

And no to drinking because it has ruined the lives of everyone around me, which in turn partially ruined mine as well.

Polish drinking culture is devastating, even among Gen Z. Lost too many of my friends to alcohol - somehow each and every one of them who started went into a downwards spiral and became a shell of their former self.

My home stopped giving me the feeling of safety as my parents’ alcohol-induced fights stripped it away. Same thing happened to my university dorm, as 9 times out of 10 I’d come back to a room that had vomit everywhere and my drunk roommate laying unconscious on the floor.

I don’t know if I’m a magnet for these kinds of people or what, but because of that I’ve been against alcohol ever since I first learned what the word meant.

Elder millennial. I think we were the last gen where cigarettes, booze, and drugs were seen as “cool”. Younger people seemed to have figured it out early how much of a fucking waste of time and money all three are.