Gambling
Recent news reports have revealed an alarming trend in the gambling industry. Slot machines are now featuring child-enticing themes including Candyland, which is popular among very young children, other board games such as Monopoly, as well as the Three Stooges, the Pink Panther, South Park, I Dream of Jeannie, and the Addams Family.
Gambling is a dangerous problem for American children. The National Gambling Impact Study Commission reported that as many as 20 percent of adolescents may already be experiencing gambling problems.
The gambling industry is the bane of millions of Americans, and a proximate cause in countless divorces, cases of domestic violence, bankruptcies, suicides and homelessness, as well as despondency, ruination, impoverishment, despair and many other social ills.
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Groups Want Congress to Investigate “Slots for Tots,” Gambling Industry
Gary Ruskin | November 22nd, 1999
Nader, Dobson Ask Whether Democrats “Want to Be the Party of the Gambling Industry”
Gary Ruskin | August 2nd, 1999
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