NATIONAL
COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: The 1999 National Gambling Impact Study Commission, called for
"an immediate need to address pathological gambling … and consider a pause in
the expansion of gambling".
MIDDLE-CLASS ENTITLEMENT: This proposal will be a middle-class entitlement program
"from lottery players, who tend to live in the poorest counties in the [Georgia]
state" New York Times, February 4, 2001 Ohio, New Mexico, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia,
etc., are having difficulty funding the scholarships they have obligated themselves to
fund.
LOTTERY ADDICTIVE: It's Georgia lottery's version of keno, a casino style game that
operates from dawn to midnight in restaurants and other businesses across the state.
"'It was introduced without any extra legislation', said Parquita Nassau, a
spokeswoman for the Georgia lottery.
"Georgia's Quick Cash survived a court challenge in 1997 when state appeals judges
ruled it was not an illegal casino game. While it is a number-picking game like most other
options offered by state lotteries, the pace of keno games troubles some lottery critics.
Other games play out over hours or days; keno starts afresh 12 times an hour.
"'The quicker the game, the more likely it is to lead to addiction and problem.' Said
Robert Goodman, executive director of the U.S. Gambling Research Institute in
Massachusetts. 'With most lottery games, you might have drawings once a day, or once a
week. Keno falls to the slot machine end of the scale.'" The Birmingham News, April
27, 1999 Robin DeMonia, News staff writer.
JONESBOROUGH[TN] --"…accused estate pilferer J.D. Hickman…..49 of
Kingsport, jailed on charges he took up to $300,000 from clients and squandered in the
Virginia lottery…" "…the former attorney's
wife, Judy Hickman…acknowledged her husband had a gambling problem. 'He didn't steal
it for himself,' the woman told [Judge] Brown at the Oct. 11 hearing. 'He just lost it.
There's a difference.'" Kingsport times News, Thursday, January 9, 1997 Lee
Davenport, Times-News Staff Writer
An Armstrong County woman received a minimal sentence of a few hours in jail yesterday
after her attorney argued before a federal judge that her embezzlement of $158,500 from a
bank was the result of her addiction to the Pennsylvania Lottery's Big 4 game. Tuesday,
December 19, 2000, By Mike Bucsko, Post-Gazette Staff Writer, Pennsylvania
POOR BUY MOST TICKETS: According to a study by Charles Clotfelter and Philip Cook of Duke
University, two of the nation's most respected lottery researchers, the top 5 percent of
players buy 51 percent of al lottery tickets. The top 10 percent - who spend an average of
$2,250 annually - account for two-thirds of total ticket sales, and the top 20 percent of
frequent players produce 81 percent of sales, spending about $1,400 per year. By Barry M.
Horstman, Washington Post Staff reporter Publication date: 03-20-99
SCAVENGER ECOMONY: "Huge portions of discretionary consumer dollars are being
diverted into gambling, resulting in losses to restaurant and entertainment industries,
movie theaters, sports event, clothing and furniture stores, and other business." The
Luck Business, Robert Goodman
YOUTH PROBLEMS: Cocaine use was reported three times as often by students who reported
gambling compared with those who did not.
Of the students, 53% reported gambling in the past 12 months, and 7% reported problems
attributable to gambling.
Inhalant use was reported by 20% of students who reported gambling.
Analysis of the violence-related risk behaviors showed that although 28% of students who
reported gambling also reported carrying a weapon at least once in the past 30 days, this
increased to 47% of students who reported problems related to gambling.
[Survey of students in 79 public and private schools in Vermont.] PEDIATRICS Vol. 102, No.
2, August 1998 Electronic Article: "Gambling and Other Risk Behaviors Among 8th- to
12th -Grade Students www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/102/2/e23
The gambling rates of these adolescents [surveyed] surpassed those for regular cigarette
smoking, regular alcohol consumption, and the regular use of illicit drugs.
"Pathological gamblers reported a mean age of 10.9 years for gambling onset."
"Adolescent gambling behavior: A prevalence study and examination of the correlates
associated with problem gambling" Rina Gupta and Jeffrey L. Derevensky, McGill
University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
'Where there is active promotion of STATE LOTTERIES, there is increased participation in
gambling among juveniles. When any one form of gambling is promoted, participation in all
forms of gambling is increased by juveniles,' he added." Durand Jacobs, a diplomate
in clinical psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology |
