The fact that I can get stuck behind someone at the pharmacy checkout who is buying lotto tickets boggles my mind every time. Personally I think we need to go way further than this, but it's a start.
yeah there are always lines of rubes on friday gettin their scratchers, but there is little directly evil dopamine manipulation you'd see on apps
Really though people should not tolerate it. Say what you will about the benefits but it is a regressive tax that preys upon people with a poor understanding of numbers and finance, I'm not sure how you can take a moral position that it is good. Historically it is even racist; these were made really to squash local numbers game rackets that were often found in minority communities. They essentially had a baked in market they captured using regulation to create a state owned monopoly over it. Same people you see buying lotto scratchers today would have been playing the numbers game a few generations ago.
You can't stamp out gambling completely but I find well run state lotteries preferable to sports betting apps, poker machines and any other digital gambling platform.