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 definitely depends on the regulation of each country. In my country alcohol commercials are regulated: they can only be shown at night, the same as casinos, and low grade alcoholic beverages only.
What they do is announce 0.0 drinks during the day, with the same shape of the alcoholic ones, and "light" drinks (gins, rums... with half the alcohol) to circumvent the rule without violating it. But apart from that, alcohol and gambling ads are treated the same.