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Online Blackjack News - 2% of All British Citzens is Addicted to Gambling!
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However, the study is too late to stop the new Gambling Regulation Act, a relaxation in the gaming rules from today to allow betting shops to open later and let casinos and some others advertise on television for the first time, which comes into effect today.
The report, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research, with academics at Birmingham University, has been peer-reviewed over the summer and is due to report in the middle of this month. The results have come from a little-known Gambling Prevalence Study looking at problem gamblers, which was commissioned by the Gambling Commission two years ago. Industry experts expect it to show at the very least a doubling in the problem-gambling prevalence rate. This compares with a previous study by the old Gaming Board in 1999. It found problem gamblers made up between 0.6 and 0.8 per cent of the adult population.
Industry analysts say the problem has come from an increase in online gambling sites and a big increase in the number of touch-screen roulette games where punter can wager up to £300 per minute.
Gordon Brown let it be known that he disproves of gambling when he levied a surprise £100million tax raid on casinos in his last Budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer in March. As Prime Minister, he then ordered a review of his predecessor Tony Blair’s hopes for 17 new casinos weeks after the plans were thrown out by Parliament.
One source said: “The suspicion is that Brown will use the prevalence study as a way to restate future opposition to new casino development. “Ministers have been told that the casinos plank of the Gambling Act will be severely career limiting.”
Downing Street sources suggested Mr. Brown was more against the super-casino than the 16 others. A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said: “We are not going to speculate. The study looks at problem gambling levels before the Act comes in, so is a baseline. There will be a further study in three years. “The Act gives the Gambling Commission powers to deal with any problem that might arise. Ministers have always been clear we won't hesitate to use these powers if they have to.”
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| Sunday, 2 September 2007 |
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