People around make a great difference. Environment in sense of location is not as important as a society and the motivation
Maybe you have forgotten that the environment make up the society and this can have much influence on our gambling lifestyle increasing it or reducing our urge for gambling. Gambling is a lifestyle that we need to embrace it and focus on what we want not doing what will have so much influence on our gambling lifestyle. Everybody has different reasons why they gamble so we need to work on what works for us not for others strategies blindly. The influence gambling has on us can be restructured to reduce the effects.