Cohort effects indicate a decline in alcohol volume from the 1940s to the 1970s birth cohort groups and a steep increase in younger cohorts. Moreover, cohorts born after 1980 were found to drink more often to intoxication than older cohorts. Likewise, age-period-cohort effects were studied on US and Finnish data. There is, here as well, some evidence for a positive cohort effect in the younger cohorts.