You could ask the same thing about alcohol, or gambling. But people have been doing these things since before there were industries for them, so there’s appare

You could ask the same thing about alcohol, or gambling. But people have been doing these things since before there were industries for them, so there’s apparently something besides marketing that causes humans to want those things. The better way to combat these “evil” industries would be to fulfill that need as well or better in less destructive ways, making the industry obsolete.