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Should be banned like cigarettes and hard liquor

Now remove "ads".

Sport broadcasts that don't have commercials at all are great.

lol. You nailed it.

Booze and trucks, those were the ads back in the day.

they think adding a mini bet in the middle or end of a video will make me want to bet but instead it makes me block the creator/influencer/company.

It is an extreme addiction problem in this country. But, we just keep advertising it, more states jump on board and more online platforms arise monthly. America is addicted to addiction.

Absolutely!!

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Every ad break on commercial TV and especially radio contains at least one gambling advert, throughout the day. It's appalling. Gambling destroys lives. It's not "just a bit of bingo" when you're blowing all of your money away. Same with National Lottery and Euro Millions - they're pushing a dream.

When the orange lump won the first time, the day after Brent Musburger announced he was opening a betting company in Vegas. It was chilling to me. Profiting off lies and youth, so many will be destroyed.

100%. I'm ok with sports betting existing. But it is a societal ill that just prints money for the predators, and we should be hard-regulating it like cigarettes.

Absolutely. It’s a sickness that ruins people’s lives.☹️😡

Trans people, gays, and immigrants are the problem, but gambling addicts are okay

Worse yet is Polymarket.

Especially during games.

No…We should taxing sporting events with Sporting Fees 1–Sport Centers: Excessive traffic congestion per event Fees 2–Wilderness Areas: (a) Pre-event preparation fees (b) Wilderness Safety fees during event and (c) Post-Event damages, reparations, and rehabilitation fees

Any ad that promotes something that’s addictive should be banned - alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.

I’ll be curious to see the rise in personal bankruptcies because too many men will gamble their homes away.

I change the channel if one comes on. Even in the middle of a Bears game.

ALL online gambling should be illegal. And most forms of AI should be illegal. And WWE should be banned from ESPN, because it's not a sport.

I agree. I mean is it really different from alcohol ads that were banned ? Both can cause addictions

If not banned, the ads should at least be required to report the actual odds of consistently winning, which is only about 3-5%. Instead, they feature characters acting like they’re getting rich by gambling. The gullibility of their target audience, young males, is really exploited.

You could have just removed ads from that sentence.

You can probably place a bet on Polymarket about whether sports betting ads will be made illegal

Sports betting and polymarket betting should be illegal

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Agreed

check out the piece John Oliver recently did on the two big betting corporations. you can bet on whether a dildo will be thrown onto the floor of a WNBA game and then make it happen yourself !🤑

Sports betting should be illegal. FTFY

Yeah, we should treat sports betting like we treat smoking: keep it legal, but discourage the hell out of it. No broadcast/online advertising, just for starters.

Sports betting should be illegal

You are entirely right in your assessment of ads for online gambling on my TV. The celebrities who endorses should be ashamed of themselves. I have Samsung TV and Sling, and I will see ad after ad for online gambling. Next door, the house was in foreclosure because of his gambling. A tragedy

Unless they are written on pieces of latex floating to the top of the Washington reflecting pool

Agreed!!

And the guy in the fishermen's bar yammering about the damn octopus should be harpooned and fed to the sharks.

Sports betting was illegal at one time. What happened? Supreme court? Yep.

Sports betting should be illegal.

All betting ads including on the markets should be illegal.

AMEN

And I’m disappointed in Neil Patrick Harris, John Hamm, Matthew Broderick, and Jamie Fox for appearing in those gambling ads. They don’t need the money, and they should know better

Sports betting should be regulated and taxed at least

It's capitalism and for those that can't handle gambling, get help. Betting should be legal in every state.

It saddens me to see famous folks promoting them and while I'm here credit cards too.

Sports betting should be illegal in its current format.

What are the odds of that happening?

Lord yes. So destructive

Sports betting should be illegal—sorry but my opinion. Same thing for the predictive (sp?) market.

In Australia a majority have expressed a desire for a ban on sports gambling advertising. Government relying on political donations, stubbornly ignoring the electorate. Gambling has bought our democracy. Only hope is that the government will be made to pay for this at the next election. #Auspol

Yes, they should—just like cigarettes and alcohol. By the way, prescription drugs should be as well.

Amen

Celebs should not debase themselves by appearing in them.

All of the sports leagues: "We don't know why fans keep accusing our refs and players of betting and changing outcomes of games?" All of the pro sports leagues: Lets sign multi-billion dollar ad contracts with all the betting companies and show their ads nonstop during our broadcasts! Yeah!!

Sports betting should be illegal

& I would add that if drug companies spend millions on ads they should be required to spend an equal amount on making those drugs available at a price people can afford.

Yes your right they fucking should if people are that easy to part with they're hard earned it shouldn't be easy for betting companies to exploit mugs game!

Sports betting ought to be illegal.

Totally agree with you , I think it’s starting to feel like a brainwash just imagine sitting next to your own 7 year old child while he learns about shaping a glorified believe about it! If i would describe the whole sport betting ads in one world i will easily choose ( UNACCEPTABLE)

Betting should be illegal. The main use of casinos? Money laundering.

So should drug ads. Seriously, if you have to ask your doctor if you need a drug, you don't.

Maybe just Sports Betting should be illegal

Eapecially when players advertise!

Give them the tobacco treatment.

It’s killing sports. It’s a perfect situation for the bad guys. There’s always someone willing to take the bribe.

I think ads should be illegal, good things sell them selves, it's crap that needs forcing on you via none stop ads telling you how great it is.

Sports betting should be illegal, think bigger my friend.

The shitty ads for phone gambling need to stop too

And personal injury law firm ads.

Gambling is a dangerous and extremely damaging addiction, extremely hard to conquer

They've had the opposite impact on me that advertising is supposed to. I wouldn't say I used to bet often but I did occasionally. Now, I almost never bet just because every game broadcast is pelting me with odds and parlays and I'm just tired of it.

Put scripts in that category too

I was wondering if Canadians saw them as much as we do now down here in the south?

So should betting but then again, I'm old

and same for the GOP

Same as advertising cigarettes.

Oh my God, I so agree!! I have never placed a sport bet in my life yet my email spam box sometimes has hundreds a day😡😡😡 if you have a gambling problem it’s gotta be like hell on earth there’s no way you can escape from it😡😡

Oh it’s coming. I wouldn’t even be surprised if it’s at the college level. We’re normalizing betting for kids.

When they learned cigarettes cause cancer, they should've changed their name.

Especially during sports shows

As soon as something reaches zero-down-mortgage levels of ad saturation, you know it's another bad idea.

Yeah, but what are the odds that’s gonna happen?

Add pharmaceuticals Hate those ads

Well said!

How about no gambling?

Sports betting should be illegal.

Gambling is a scourge and should be outlawed entirely

I kind of feel that so should sports betting.

I drove truck locally for years. I'd listen to locally sports radio all day. Now, it's all about the spread and parlays. I stopped listening to them.

It was excellent.

Sports betting APPS should be illegal.

Yes, they should.

It’s the same as those cigarette commercials.

1000%. I hate the amount of betting ads there are. Its sad.

If I see another Kalshi or Polymarket ad ever again, it’ll be too soon.

ESPECIALLY during game broadcasts@

Ads for Polymarket/Kalshi/ whatever other "prediction market " should be too.

All betting ads should be illegal. Hell almost every ad that isn't local should be illegal. Whens the last time you saw an ad for a local place? Vs when's the last time you saw an ad for Walmart? Capitalism has failed. And ads don't work unless it's for the dumbest person

But DraftKings makes sure a gambling addict can throw $50 down that the desperate onside kick will totally work THIS time!!!

When I say "cash bail", I mean commercial bail as an industry. That other country is the Philippines, and I can't find an online history of bail in the country, so I'm guessing they picked it up from us after the Spanish-American War.

I would say it does not.

what are the odds of that happening?

all ads should be illegal; they're mostly based on exaggerations and some flat lies.