Why is it that alcohol ads are everywhere and they are easily bought in stores nationwide with only a warning of only drinking moderately and yet gambling is not allowed to be the same?
In roads, there are ads of alcohol. Where funnily enough is you shouldn't drink in. While driving. But still there are big ads and multiple ones in roads about alcohol and the warning that says Drink Responsibly. Does that one warning make it safer?
Why can't we just do the same with gambling? Alcohol consumption is extremely risky not only to the person consuming it but to the people around him. There have been so many cases of crimes due to alcohol consumption. Many people's health destroyed. So what makes it ok for alcohol ads to continue in public but not gambling?
It’s sarcastic how some substances or activities are legally allowed even with significant risks while some other less risk ones are not allowed and the law punishes the users or consumers. I believe we also can compare how adult content in some regions is allowed and being promoted in special places, TV, magazines… while gambling is strictly prohibited.
Talking about alcohol with the drink responsibly warning, that’s just how the world works, as long as that country is earning money from the industry of alcohol, they will allow advertising for it. Gambling is something that exists only online and the regions where it is not allowed yet, most likely because they didn’t find their way to profit from the industry, once they do, it will be also allowed.