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> Norway also ban: Alcohol, smoke, gaming

Gaming, as in like video games and board games are banned? Seriously?



Scandinavian translation difficulty: the word for a gambling game here is ‘spel’ or game (at least in Swedish), a video game is a ‘datorspel’ or computer game.


I am fairly certain they mean gaming as in gambling. Would be a bit weird to ban video game ads, surely?


Hard gaming vs Soft gaming


My typo - Should be gambling and all games involved money. The only one allowed is governmental and all the profit from that game go back to sports for kids, and “they” are closely monitoring that you don’t get gambling addicted to that game by forcing you to only play with a personal ID.


No. Gambling ads are not allowed though. Neither alcohol or smoking are banned, but ads for them are.


It's common usage in US English. eg, https://gaming.nv.gov/ do not regulate video games.




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