 Why say gaming instead of gambling?
She begins referring to the "gaming industry." It may finally settle this question: Is gambling Hollywood or tobacco? This effort has largely succeeded, because Vegas is still the dominant image of American gambling, if not the dominant reality. Instead it will opt for small, targeted policies, concentrating on compulsive gambling. In short, it will treat gambling as a tobaccolike vice. It has already established a (mostly) independent center to fund research into pathological gambling. It medicalizes the problem of compulsive gambling, blaming it on psychological abnormality rather than industry machination. A few years ago, gambling was confined to Las Vegas and Atlantic City. So "gambling" disappeared in Las Vegas, and "gaming" has risen in its place.
 Gaming doesn't have the negative connotation that gambling does.
 Gaming sounds more fun than gambling.  Gaming sounds young, gambling sounds old.  Gaming sounds classier than gambling.  Gaming doesn't have the negative connotation that gambling does.