In my opinion, in terms of distinguishing or comparing whether gambling is a hobby or a hobby or not, I think it really depends on each person's point of view, but in simple terms maybe I would say from my point of view that gambling activities can indeed be as a hobby for someone but this is a very expensive and dangerous hobby, in the sense that when a hobby is like collecting stamps or baseball cards it means you have to spend money to buy the item but if you spend the money once you will definitely be able to get the item but in gambling you can spend much more money without getting anything.
This means that it can still be used as a hobby but with the caveat that it must be done with great care because there are very significant risks that can make us experience various bad impacts in life as we can see from what is experienced by gamblers who already addicted. And on the other hand, as you said, when we publish or tell other people that our hobby is gambling then maybe this information can trigger problems because overall gambling usually has a very negative stigma in the eyes of society which is caused by the large number of addicted gamblers who experience bad effects.
You are probably right that it was the fairly large number of addicted gamblers at the stage of the disease that served to create the public perception of gambling as a vicious and even harmful human hobby. Probably in the public consciousness this hobby, or hobby, as discussed in this topic, can be conditionally placed in the middle between a hobby such as collecting stamps and a vice such as alcoholism or drug addiction. In terms of the degree of denial, this hobby is certainly not as serious as alcoholism, but it still has a negative connotation in the public consciousness. This automatically applies to gambling players.
People's attitude towards a person may even change for the worse when they find out that a person has such a hobby as gambling. This is definitely unpleasant and offensive to players. But this is the way it is in almost all countries of the world. Even where gambling is a local tradition.
Yes of course, because I think that's the more plausible reason why society has a negative stigma or viewpoint towards gambling activities which is all caused by gamblers who treat their gambling activities blindly which makes them experience many adverse effects. And honestly I just heard about the idea that gambling is included in the hobby group, and I believe that one of the reasons why this idea is rarely heard or rarely people say that gambling is a hobby is because this activity is not worth the reward, or in the sense that the risks are always far greater than the positive rewards.
On the other hand, yes what you said is true that the attitude or point of view of society can be bad when knowing that the person is a gambler or involved in gambling, and maybe I would say one of the reasons why society has such a bad point of view towards gamblers, which is because usually gamblers often spread problems or invite people who have a socialization relationship with them to experience problems, especially in terms of money, as evidence it often happens that a gambler always tries to borrow money from people closest to him but they are irresponsible and do not pay their debts.