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?
Alcohol normally just gets free pass in all this ads even though it causes way more problems based of evidence aaround especially if you look at health issues,accidents and even crimes yet somehow they just slap on the usual drink responsibly tag in one tiny corner on a bottle.. but gambling is treated like something that has to stay hidden!! even though a lot of people do it casually without even hurting anyone... I think it just comes down to the general public perception and also regulations... alcohol has been around like forever!! it is even part of some culture and the icing on the cake is that governments make money taxing it! so it is just normalized. But gambling on the other hand is still seen more as one very big negative vice and since gambling addiction is harder to spot than drinking problems I feel the regulatory bodies go stricter on it. But honestly if alcohol can be pushed everywhere with just a little warning i personally don’t see why gambling can’t get the same fair treatment with balanced ads as well..