I suppose it is at least partly due to puritanism (in a broad sense). Gambling, alcohol or casual sexual relations have always had enemies and those who criticize them have taken the negative cases to paint a black picture about those activities. Yes, there are people who gamble fortunes and lose everything, just as there are people who destroy their lives with alcohol, but the vast majority of people gamble or drink responsibly.
Topic: What's the motive behind the anti gambling campaign - page 10. (Read 1766 times)
1. Envy with the casinos staff or owner that can made a lot money.
2. The more people lose compared to the winner.
3. Many cases of gamblers who addicted with gambling is doing negatively (e.g. breakup, sell house, sell land and become beggar)
4. Religions, some religion is forbid gambling and consider it as haram.
5. Government, some government ban gambling industry as it's illegal.
6. A stereotype that gambling is full of criminal person and can harm you.
2. The more people lose compared to the winner.
3. Many cases of gamblers who addicted with gambling is doing negatively (e.g. breakup, sell house, sell land and become beggar)
4. Religions, some religion is forbid gambling and consider it as haram.
5. Government, some government ban gambling industry as it's illegal.
6. A stereotype that gambling is full of criminal person and can harm you.
Simply a common fella don't go into gambling activities have the mindset of negative aspects related to gambling since media is just want nothing but the attention so they just fueling those common fellas mindset to get more coverage for very long time. And also religious things can interpret the gambling as illegal but the actual reason why it was portrayed as bad in the 2000 years ago was completely different.
it's a way to educate people to prioritize the most important things in life than spending their money on gambling. many states are not making gambling legal because of the reason that there better things to do than playing on casinos. fantasy sport in this case. it's for the rich people who have more to spend than the poor who hardly meet ends. that's why they tend to emphasize on ads or news that gambling can do no good. these ads didn't stop us anyway. maybe until something happens.
It's not really gambling itself imo, but rather an addiction to it. Well in other words, the mental issue associated with addiction, and let's be real, Idk why but gamblers always, ALWAYS have that tag in them. Like every bloody gambler alive in this world always has that tag of addicted to gambling, probably due to the long-term aversion of people and their negative idea towards the prospect of gambling. The negative idea probably stemmed from the fact that you can lose money in gambling. Yes, any other form of activity also makes you lose money, but gambling has that set number that you can lose, and there's technically no limit to it.
Sides, the media doesn't advertise winners probably because they don't want to encourage gambling. Yes, people win, but among the numerous number of people gambling, what percentage actually wins, enough to actually make gambling worth it?
Sides, the media doesn't advertise winners probably because they don't want to encourage gambling. Yes, people win, but among the numerous number of people gambling, what percentage actually wins, enough to actually make gambling worth it?
Because there are too few of a winners compared to losers in gambling, also gambling isn't a healthy habit to have since it is a vice and it can be addicting. The motive behind the campaign is that they want to help people deter from possibility of gambling addiction.
I think the sad truth is, people who lose big money gambling. Are the same people who would lose big money investing in the stock market. Some demographics simply don't make good financial decisions. There are always big losers and big winners in every industry. And don't understand why gambling is being painted in a light where only the big losers are acknowledged.
Many who gambled their life fortunes usually comes forward telling their experience and may even write a book and publish them and then try to make money and if you google you can find many instance of people loosing everything in life and then trying to start over.To me there is a question of whether the media's negative coverage of gambling is intended to protect people who make bad gambling or investment decisions. Or is it intended to deprive people like me of opportunities to make money.
Addiction is the problem, anyone addicted to gambling will make bad decision in investment as well and majority of the known addicts are from sports and movie industry who made millions and are struggling with gambling addiction and we have not heard about a big investor coming forward complaining about their gambling addiction 
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Everywhere I look, all I see are negative comments made about money lost gambling. Mental illness associated with gambling and anything that can illustrate gambling in a negative light.
As someone who considers themselves to be a profitable gambler. The trend of covering only the negative side of the industry puzzles me.
Why is there never mention of the winners.
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WE WON A MILLION DOLLARS PLAYING FANTASY FOOTBALL
Despite the abundance of advertising telling you otherwise, you will almost certainly never win millions of dollars playing daily fantasy sports (if for no other reason than more and more states are outlawing it as a form of illegal gambling). But Rob and Dave Gomes, two 20-something brothers from Boston, are among the few who did just that. Last November, the pair of New England Patriots fans won $1,000,000 on daily fantasy sports website DraftKings. You might recognize them, as they were prominently featured in DraftKings’s ubiquitous TV commercials throughout the fall.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/we-won-a-million-dollars-playing-fantasy-football
Despite the abundance of advertising telling you otherwise, you will almost certainly never win millions of dollars playing daily fantasy sports (if for no other reason than more and more states are outlawing it as a form of illegal gambling). But Rob and Dave Gomes, two 20-something brothers from Boston, are among the few who did just that. Last November, the pair of New England Patriots fans won $1,000,000 on daily fantasy sports website DraftKings. You might recognize them, as they were prominently featured in DraftKings’s ubiquitous TV commercials throughout the fall.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/we-won-a-million-dollars-playing-fantasy-football
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I think the sad truth is, people who lose big money gambling. Are the same people who would lose big money investing in the stock market. Some demographics simply don't make good financial decisions. There are always big losers and big winners in every industry. And don't understand why gambling is being painted in a light where only the big losers are acknowledged.
Fantasy sports is illegal in my US state. This may deprive me of options and opportunities to make money and profit.
To me there is a question of whether the media's negative coverage of gambling is intended to protect people who make bad gambling or investment decisions. Or is it intended to deprive people like me of opportunities to make money.
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