Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "How the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed America" video.

There is so much of it. Ads for sports betting, fantasy sports, racetracks, casinos, lotteries, scratch-offs, etc. The tickets are there at every convenience store counter, the Keno is there in bars, mobile aps are advertising their gambling services, even video games are pushing thinly-disguised gambling on kids. It's worse than alcohol advertising.
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@swissarmyknight4306 I agree. Tobacco is legal, but we realized the dangers of having it advertised everywhere all the time, and tobacco use dropped. I think it would make sense to control the advertising and prevalence of gambling facilities in the same way. And I think it's ridiculous that the state runs a lottery.
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@nikn1250 I was just describing Ohio lol. I know that in much of Australia, it's significantly worse.
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@brandonporter8509 I think claw games are much worse than that. Their sole function seems to be to mislead people into thinking they are a fair game when in fact they are essentially a slot machine with horrible odds. There is nothing on the outside of these machines to suggest that most of the time, the claw will just drop the item and there is nothing you can do about it. They are basically just scams.
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