I've never heard of people who play the lottery over anything else, though I guess some people get obsessed with it and gamble with blinders on, being insistent and forgetting about anything else.
I know more gamblers who avoid the lottery because it's all low odds and no real skill.
Most of the people I know who do lotteries just do it with pocket change for a while until they decide on a better game. Even slots are better than a lottery.