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

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

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

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money