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Myth: ''So what if they are addicted. It only hurts them.'' Truth: Gambling
addiction hurts us all. A Georgia Department of Human Resources study
reports that gambling in Georgia in 1995 cost the state $224 million dollars
a year. In 1994, Dr. Robert Goodman, director of the United States Gambling
Research Institute, discovered that each person addicted to gambling costs
society an average of $13,200 a year. With up to 2.3% of our Tennessee population becoming new problem or pathological gamblers within 10 years and with a population of 5,740,021 citizens, we can anticipate about 132,000 Tennesseans as new gambling addicts with a potential cost up to $1.7 billion to Tennesseans. Let's see, we anticipate $200 million to $500 million per year for scholarships and up to $1.7 billion per year in new costs which we will pay for plus thousands of lives ruined by state sanctioned gambling. What a deal! So, does a legalized lottery put Tennesseans at greater risk for gambling addiction? Again, the simple answer: Since playing the lottery is gambling, acts of gambling increase the number of persons addicted to gambling.
Why? Playing the lottery is gambling. Acts of lottery gambling increase the number of persons addicted to gambling. |