60% have tried it. In 1980, 60% reported using it in the last month.
My point still stands that this tatoo/peircing stuff is not much worse than it was 10 or 15 years ago. It’s not why so few teenagers have jobs now.
BTW, I hate tatoos and avoid businesses with tatooed employees.
And sure there were a few ... punk types with tattoo's and who wore black a lot and wore weird makeup. But they were just a small fringe group.
Now it seems like around half of the young adults look like complete freaks. But it's not just that, they also don't want to actually work for their pay.
I can't count how many times some doped up white kid (guy or girl) with tattoo's and piercings covering every inch of their body approached me looking for work. I wouldn't trust these people to walk my dog, much less let them into my business or home to do various manual labor jobs that I usually need done. Plus, even if I did have pity on them (every once in a while I have to re-learn this lesson) they wont actually work. They just sort of just shuffle around making it look like they are doing something when they are not taking a smoking break, texting, or talking on their phones. This is especially true with lower class whites. I can get more work out of a random Mexican in an hour than I can one of these people in an entire day.