All vices are harmful, you could compare gambling with smoking, with alcohol, with whatever, but as long as you know that things are not good when they are done in excess, because when we look at vices, they are all harmful, but no vice is like that of drugs, it is the worst because it destroys the person, and anything else that one can be addicted to, I have seen that in the threads they talk about addiction to games and it can be something counterproductive when compared to other things, such as smoking, drinking alcohol, because everything leads to the same thing, they do not know how to control it and that is the only way to get addicted, that is why you must always have control of everything so that we do not harm ourselves.
wrong in that part , because all the vices you mentioned are completely to spend money but in gambling there is a chance to gain more though it is smaller percent yet there is far different than those others so addiction in gambling is harder to achieve .
and also you are correct that those are all leading to same thing and that is to lose our life if not managed correctly .
And it's better if they don't waste money so they don't get addicted to gambling, especially if they have seen what impact someone can experience when they become a gambling addict. They cannot stop gambling because it is so hard for them that they will continue to sink into gambling until someone notices it and wants to help them get out of gambling. But that is also if they are aware to ask for help from others so they can be saved. So stopping gambling or continuing to gamble is a choice of our own.