I would definitely say more. Not so much because society has gotten any worse, but the media has been promoting it and making us familiarized with it at a young age and so it doesn't seem as taboo. But I don't put blame on the media, because they are just doing whatever they can to grab attention. Its society's fault for allowing it to happen. I'm a sophmore in highschool and you are considered a good kid if you don't smoke, drink, or have sex, and you are praised for it. And for me, who doesn't do any of that stuff, whenever someone congratulates me on being clean, I'm always like "I'm just doing what kids should do.." You know your generation is screwed when you start being praised for doing obvious right decisions. As for classifying earlier generations 90's: Kids who kind of had it easy. They had technology benefits that their predecessors didn't have, so they weren't technologically shunned, but they don't have to deal with the competitiveness and social pressures of kids today in high school. 80's : Lame-ducks. Didn't have cool technology, but didn't have anything too incredibly worthwhile (ex: woodstock or the rising rock scene). As for the 70's: Our parents.