The shady businesses on the streets guarantee a profit. If one sells drugs on the street, he's guaranteed to make money. The case is not the same with gambling. You may or may not.
That is absolutely not true. People getting killed or injured by rival gangs while trying to sell drugs on the streets is a common thing. Your profit is not guaranteed at all. Where did you get that info?
We should be very careful in choosing words when speaking about such serious matters. Just imagine if young people were reading your lines, what conclusions they could draw from them?
He probably got it from TV series or just from the general idea that doing something illegal will give you money. I think it should be clarified that doing something like this will indeed give you money but only for a short time. The problem arises when you want to quit. Syndicates don't let you quit the game. Either you stay or they kill you so you won't expose them at some point. It's really risky to do. In addition, if you're in bad need of money for yourself or for your family, you're not going to risk going to jail because that will result to you not being able to do anything to help your family. There's still a lot of things that you can do since a lot of people don't want to do certain things.
In my country, the jail time for drug users, and sellers is a lifetime. Once you're caught, you're better off dead. You're never getting out.
The reason that young people are going towards gambling is online gambling because they want big money for their future dreams and in the greed of winning more and more money they lose all their money. Nobody can stop them because they can gamble from their bedrooms. Their parents even dont know about their gambling addiction.