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> Heroin is addictive, nicotine is addictive. Light and sound are fundamentally different.

Gambling is also an addiction with a non-chemical basis

IIRC, the lovely book Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas claims that gambling addiction was a concept pushed by the casinos, to put the blame onto individuals, rather than the machine.

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