Casino?

Another word on vice and liberalism.
A brand new casino opened in the centre of Lisbon.
Sponsored by the ~City Hall and Government, with the taxes, it will pay a lot of work and investment in the city. 85 million euro gross tax receipt in the first year.
That is good.
Public authority is assuming, we think, people are responsible for themelves, gambling is no addiction, it has everything to do with free will. Thats why our gambling laws are becoming more liberal everyday, unlike with smoking (particularly in this one), drugs or alcohol consumptions.
What is then the difference between gambling and cigarettes?
Why do we need to read on cigarette packs that smoke kills and we saw absolutely no negative advertising, forced or natural, about the devastating consequences of gambling?
What is the logic behind all this?
Could be the tourists.
Since they will constitute a large, high powered group of gamblers we do not want to distract them with negative advertising.
Could be that there is less physical pain (and hospital costs) with gambling.
I think however the real reason is that gambling is still "not seen" as smoking, drugs or alcohol. And it is this logic of public valuing that destroys its logic. Because it is not, in the end, about being liberal, or not liberal, about letting the individual making its choices, it is about the "moral" erratic judgement of a minister or group of ministers who decide the way we live. And that is very unconfortable.
Carpe Diem