ANALYSIS: Should betting platforms be treated like Big Tobacco?

“Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.”

“I’d walk a mile for a Camel.”

“Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch.”

Readers of a certain age will surely remember the tag lines from television commercials we used to watch decades ago. R.J. Reynolds even boasted that “More doctors smoke Camels” than any other brand.

Today we can scarcely believe that such ads were ever allowed. They’re not anymore, of course. Parliament passed its first law banning tobacco advertising nearly 40 years ago.

Now some people are drawing comparisons to online sports gambling — and demanding the same ad-free solution.

Bruce Kidd may be 82 years old, but don’t let that fool you. The former Canadian Olympic long-distance runner and head of the University of Toronto’s athletics department still burns with moral indignation when talking about the corrosive influence online gambling (and particularly “prop” betting) has had on sports.[…] This is an excerpt. Read the full article at TVO.