People wont realize until they had messed up their own lives because of gambling.People would just simply ignore the current situation theyre in as long they do have money but
You definitely are referring to people who are irresponsible in gambling, I believe most gamblers are responsible that's why only a few are messing their life, and yet the government wants to prevent this from happening so they ban gambling, but we are lucky if we live in a country where gambling is not banned.
In fact, the opposite is true. There are not many players who have a sufficient level of self-control and are familiar with probability theory, game theory and mathematical expectation. Everyone else, no matter how hard they try and what strategies they use, still loses. This is why gambling is banned by governments in many countries.
Of course gambling will mess a lot with your own situation and condition, sometimes the control of that responsibility will be lost if we don't realize it, well there the government doesn't want anything like that so I'm sure gambling will be banned in many countries because it will become a criminal in the future so I think we just need to control and avoid what the government doesn't want.
I myself, gambling is prohibited in my country, but always playing this secretly can still be tricked, especially if only online casinos are often played.