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Both gambling and drugs (alcohol is a drug too) need one small but utterly crippling regulation everywhere in the world. Ban advertising. No advertising of any
by Yizahi 3y ago
Both gambling and drugs (alcohol is a drug too) need one small but utterly crippling regulation everywhere in the world. Ban advertising. No advertising of any kind, electronic or physical. No logos, no brands, no specific color patterns if they happen to do gambling or drugs. No advertisement via product placement - so no products on visible market shelves. But otherwise leave them legal.
I'm guessing that as soon as overaggressive advertisement is banned they will immediately lose a majority of fresh marks and victims. During BigTobacco trials those companies showed stats that the overwhelming majority of new smokers are teenagers. As soon as they can't be easily influenced the abuse usage will go down.
- heyitsguay 3y agoCompletely agreed. Legalizing drugs and gambling is important for cutting off the flow of money and social legitimacy to criminal operations, but the "nice" thing (from a marketing perspective) about addictive substances and activities is you don't need to try hard to sell them. For users, even addicts, the bar set by having to deal with black markets is so low that we can get them out of the streets with the truly blandest, unenticing solutions -- plain black and white boxes, black and white screens, beige halls. Just cheap enough to undercut illegal alternatives, with all color and marketing effort placed on the offramps: addiction treatment information and guidance framed in a friendly, empathetic, medical manner.