Protecting people from themselves never works

Interesting. Major new gambling laws in force:

But the biggest change is the lifting of the ban on TV and radio adverts, which allows gambling emporiums to reach bigger audiences.

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The new ads will carry the address of a website promoting responsible gambling.

What I think would work better is a major tightening up of credit, AND preventing the use of debt collection agencies in the case of gambling debts. Removes the desire of casinos and gambling websites to attract everyone, wouldn’t it?

(Yes, I know it’s not practical. One can dream.)

• 1 Sep 2007

• Thinking