I agree with you, I think teenagers need to be protected from gambling, but you can't do it only with government bans. Parents also need to protect their children and take care of them. Gambling addiction has become increasingly common among teenagers in recent years, and it’s truly sad.
Actually parents even have the biggest roles to play in protecting these teenagers from the gambling exposure much more than the government does because this children spend Time with their parents especially those who do not work the whole day, much more than they spend time in public facilities where the government has got controls, their gadgets can be regulated by the parents to a far extent than the government would so you opinion is one which I will really buy into.
Families seem to account for more than half of the percentage in helping to limit adolescents' exposure to gambling and can stop them in time before they become real monsters here but somehow in adolescence, parents can no longer be strict and caring like a child, they have been with the children long enough and this child needs to go to school to become a teenager, know responsibility and shoulder. Of course, bad and good things will be absorbed in that process but believe that a good environment and parental example will convince teenagers to know how to erase gambling from their souls.
One thing I have come to conclusion with is that, in a child there is high percentage interest of family on the life of the child and whatever a child could come up with is what runs in the family, if you have hates and disrespect in the family, you will see you children picking up those characters too, same as gambling, if a parent gamble irresponsibly, he may indirectly pass that to the kids also, unknowingly, so as a parent's we have to pay close attention to our kid's because building up kids is most easy when you have them young but anything above teenage age, you may have troubles correcting them but time spending with our kid's is very important.
Sometimes I have to spend more time with my kid's just so I can monitor their character, this is very important as a parent, but some parents have the habit of focusing so much in their careers and leaving the kid's in the care of others.
So for such a kid, getting addicted to Gambling will be very easy since their is not caution and guidance as to what kind of activities he get involved in, this is very important.