"Don't do it" is the wrong message to send teenagers if you want them not togamble, a new study says. Based on 30 focus groups with teenagers insoutheastern Ontario and Montreal, two researchers concluded that it's easyfor ad campaigns designed to discourage certain behaviours to run afoul ofthe target audience.Carmen Messerlian and Jeffrey Derevensky concluded […]
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State gambling regulators have agreed to delay until next year a debate onwhether to issue new licenses allowing additional casinos in the state. TheIowa Racing and Gaming Commission decided unanimously Thursday that moretime is needed to assess the financial performance of four new casinos thatwere granted licenses in 2005 before deciding if the state can […]
Once you leave the U.S. the situation becomes rather clear and quitedepressing. The rest of the world is full of potential and opportunity whenit comes to online gambling. New choices and options merely awaitimplementation in this business which seemingly changes every six months.The U.S. once held all the cards in this market, but has been […]
New research suggests the risk of becoming a problem gambler is more thanfive times higher for teens whose parents aren't aware of their gamblingactivities. The research by the Responsible Gambling Council stems from apreviously released study about the gambling habits of Ontario teenagersaged 15 to 17. The council is launching a campaign to persuade parents […]
The state Public Regulation Commission wants to have its workers attendtraining sessions on gambling in the wake of an investigation intoallegations that PRC employees took part in a type of lottery dubbed "dollarroll." PRC Chairman Ben R. Luján on Thursday sent a letter asking the GamingControl Board to conduct two training sessions, which would be […]
As parents we worry. We worry about whether our kids are too fat or toothin, how to get them into good schools and whether they'll fall off theirbikes or be abducted. Then they get a bit older and we anguish over whetherthey're smoking pot, having sex or hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then,no sooner […]
I cannot quite remember whether it was the Vino Tinto – perhaps you know thesort, slightly gruff and moody but heart-warming nonetheless. Or maybe itwas the outrageously sensuous and fickly-named Serradura, a pudding soseductive it would have broken laws in any other incarnation. Either way Ifinished my meal at La Lorcha with the conclusion that […]
The latest paper from UK Gambling Commission has shed light on the extent ofthe nation's gambling habit. It found that eight percent of the country'sadults have dabbled in at least one form of remote gambling in the previousmonth. According to the 'Survey Data on Remote Gambling Participation', theNational Lottery was the most popular form of […]
Attorney General Charles Foti on Tuesday will present to the LouisianaAssociation on Compulsive Gambling a proclamation declaring the week ofMarch 5-11 National Problem Gambling Awareness Week in Louisiana. ProblemGambling affects more than 100,000 Louisiana families, and millions ofpeople nationwide, according to the association. In addition, the Office ofAddictive Disorders will announce its assistance in the […]
The AFL has vowed to do "everything in its power" to detect and punishplayers who gamble on football matches and warned that any future breachesof its anti-gambling rules will trigger automatic suspension. But inrevealing the penalties for four players caught betting on games lastseason, league football operations manager Adrian Anderson admittedinvestigators did not have access […]
"The AFL has vowed to do 'everything in its power' to detect and punishplayers who gamble on football matches and warned that any future breachesof its anti-gambling rules will trigger automatic suspension. ".Confrontedwith the first examples of players who had flouted the AFL's anti-gamblingcode framed after the Shane Warne-Mark Waugh bookie scandal, the leagueresisted the […]
I was somewhat puzzled to read your editorial opposing the introduction of"gambling machines" to help fund transportation needs. While I assume yousupport more funding for transportation, you evidently have a problem withallowing consenting adults to make the decision on whether they want toentertain themselves with what are essentially slot machines. You trot outthe old anti-gambling […]
Legal gambling operations make $13 billion a year from California's boominggaming industry but do little to aid the hundreds of thousands whose livesit ruins or ease damage to society, lawmakers said Tuesday. A Senatecommittee, which intends to swiftly tackle the problem, was surprised atsome findings during a nearly four-hour informational hearing: A governmentWeb site for […]
Meanwhile, John Anderson, the former chief executive of 888 Holdings, hasbeen summoned for interview by the French authorities, prompting speculationthat French authorities are about to crackdown on online gambling. This initself is prompting speculation that the French and American governmentsactually agree on something. After the US clampdown on internet gamblinglast October, the last thing PartyGaming […]