When I was a boy scout when of my troop leaders (and father of one of the other scouts) killed himself after gambling away his house, leaving his wife and kid(s?) homeless and penniless.

I don’t really know the details because I was a kid, I’m not traumatized by it or anything but it puts it into pretty stark relief for me.

I know more people whose lives have been ruined by gambling than by drunk driving, drug use and STDs put together. It’s about education and anti-normalization.

Gambling houses abuse the risk/reward/ pleasure dynamics of the human brain. They should not be advertised or normalized at all.