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Public health researchers say Las Vegas could share valuable lessons about the negative effects of sports gambling with states that are just now legalizing it, including North Carolina, where when
Over the next week, the NFL’s players, coaches, fans and executives will gather for an event that was virtually unthinkable just 10 years ago: the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of the United States. Since the Supreme Court struck down, in 2018, a federal law that effectively banned sports betting outside Nevada — a prohibition once backed by the NFL’s commissioner, Roger Goodell — the NFL has embraced the gambling industry. It has forged partnerships reportedly worth nearly $1 bi
Recent consultations on UK gambling policy do not deliver the transformational change needed, write May CI van Schalkwyk and Rebecca Cassidy
We are at a perilous moment in the regulation of gambling in the UK. We must choose between continuing with the current laws, designed to protect and expand the gambling industry, or changing our approach to focus on preventing gambling harm. The incremental changes to gambling regulation proffered by the government’s white paper1 are superficially appealing, but limited reforms will ultimately help to conserve flawed legislation. A new Gambling Act, founded on public health principles, is needed urgently.23
Implementing a statutory levy on gambling operators will not be sufficient to reduce the harms. On the contrary, taking money from the gambling industry entrenches the dangerous idea that the industry can grow without limits, as long as it pays for the harm it causes.4 Given what we know about gambling harms, ranging from family breakdowns