Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Over the past decade, gambling has become an important recreational activity in the United States and also in 1975, Nevada was the only state that offered casino gambling, thirteen states had lotteries, and 68% of adults had gambled. However by 1997, all but two states that are Hawaii and Utah had ratified some form of commercial gambling and 86 percent of the North American adult population had participated in games of chance. Then in 1997 consumers in America were spending more than $50.9 billion gambling and for that more than one of every ten dollars spent on leisure activities was spent gambling, with more money being spent on gambling than was being spent on tickets to sporting events, movies, theme parks, video games, and recorded music combined. Read further...