A recent study has discovered that teenagers and young people would choose playing video games over sex, alcohol and cigarettes. How times have changed.

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According to the biennial Youth Risk Behaviour Survey conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 45.6% of teens spend at least three hours a day playing on their computer or video games. This figure was 41.7% in 2013 and just 28.1% in 2005, so it’s rising at a pretty drastic rate.

Meanwhile, more and more city kids are saying no to sex, booze and tobacco. The number of high school students who had sex has fallen from 31.2% in 2013 to 27.2% in 2015, which is reportedly a record low. Meanwhile, only 20.9% said they had drunk alcohol in the last month, down from 24.7% in 2013 and 41.8% in 2001. Tobacco smoking dropped from 8.2% in 2013 to 5.8% in 2015… you get the idea.

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Kids are not going out, getting fucked and shagging about – instead they’re playing video games. Officials are now warning against spending hours of sedentary game playing as this can have serious implications towards overall health.

But I reckon the main worry here is that millennials are becoming seriously lame. Instead of sitting in a field, drinking White Lightening and learning how to chirpse people they fancy, they’re sitting in their room spending hours in a virtual world.

They’re going to be screwed when their first year of uni comes round. You can’t launch into freshers’ week as an inexperienced partier – you’ll get eaten alive.