Plenty of people have the same exposure and are not hooked by it. That's my point. I'm happy to be rid of the exposure, I'm not defending it, but it doesn't address what makes a subset of people susceptible to it. My general point is that if the strategy boils down to "make sure people don't find out gambling is an option" then I think it's a pretty primitive strategy.

Let's be clear, I don't think advertising this garbage is in anyway okay, however there's probably a lot more we can do than simply reducing exposure to adverts. Banning gambling outright seems like it wouldn't really work (prohibition, etc..) but there's probably more levers that we could use. Possibly taxing the ever-loving crap out of gambling companies for a start, but this kind of policy isn't my area and I defer to people with the background.