Don't take it personally redietz (because you do take every disagreement personally and as an attack on your pristine reputation) but recreational gambling and addicted gambling are two separate things.

You, editor Bob, are just trying to redefine it. Well the existing definition works just fine.

"refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like."

You write a lot about addicted gambling. To paraphrase a greater writer than you, why do you protest too much?