The amount of gambling adds is pretty overwhelming at times, and the "make every game exciting" angle they take is a bit uhm... it would be interesting to see where the profits come from and how big the share from people with gambling problem is proportionally. I mean genuinely interesting, I have no idea what it actually is.
In Finland advertising of gambling is prohibited, but there is/was a state owned company that holds monopoly on gambling and slot machines etc. It used to be so almost every grocery store would have a slot machine. For most people it was harmless fun, you buy your groceries and get your change, then dump all the small coins into the machine as you are leaving, ofc usually you'd lose that small money, but sometimes you'd win. It was kind of fun. But it also used to be a thing you'd see that same old timer every day sitting on that machine, at least early in the month when they had just got their pension...
Anyway the upside of that system (that's falling apart because of internet) is that the profits from gambling go to things that are considered common good, I think mostly youth sports and the like.
A lot of those slot machines are gone, and I don't remember the last time I played one, probably like 10 years ago. These days they require a card or something for identification, I'm not sure how exactly it works, like I said it's been a long time...