We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime