Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts

I find it difficult to watch any sports these days because you are just constantly bombarded with sports betting ads and tie-ins. I have absolutely no interest in throwing my money away on sports bets and yet even I find myself wondering if I should try it out or maybe I could just open a trial account. It's dangerous and disappointing that this is the direction that all the major sports leagues are heading.

Tangential comment, I&#x27;m a passionate follower of formula one and have realised that basically anything advertised on F1 cars is &quot;bad&quot;. Cigarettes are the obvious historical example, FTX is the more recent one.<p>There&#x27;s many that are socially acceptable at the moment but only with the caveat of either &quot;in moderation&quot; or &quot;for responsible adults&quot;: energy drinks, crypto, etc.<p>Google Chrome is one that a decent debate could be had about.<p>Microsoft Dynamics might be the exception that proves the rule... But I&#x27;ve never worked out what the hell the product actually is.

I don&#x27;t know how we went from &quot;you have to travel to Las Vegas or Atlantic City to gamble&quot; to &quot;You can gamble 24&#x2F;7 on a device that&#x27;s always with you.&quot; Anti-gambling laws were put in place for very well understood reasons.

A few generations ago, both gambling and psychedelics were considered so detrimental to society that they carried harsh penalties.<p>Then one them started firehosing cash into campaigns and budgets. . .

Not that dissimilar from unfettered options trading on mass-market brokerage apps like Robinhood...

Only slightly related: can anyone speak to the syntax of headlines like this where the &#x27;author&#x27; of statement is appended to the end? e.g. Statment: author. It seems to go against what seems to me more natural and common, which is &#x27;author: statement&#x27;, or even &#x27;statement - author&#x27;. Just curious is all.

&gt; “You can be gambling away your house on your mobile phone sitting at the dinner table, and not a single person will know until the devastation of your whole family is complete”<p>That sounds like a reasonable means of control then. These services could be locked to networks at locations with some kind of gaming license (something like a Keno license).

I know a friend Running an illegal online casino in Hong Kong<p>(In Hong Kong you can only bet on Jockey Club organizations)<p>He continued to sell ads on Facebook during the epidemic.<p>He earns over one million dollars every month.<p>And he is just one of them. There are many people who make more.<p>It really opened my eyes.<p>Sorry, my native language is not English.

I don&#x27;t understand. There&#x27;s obviously a market for it. Can&#x27;t folks decide that the price is too high? Are we really willing to accept that agents aren&#x27;t rational? Wouldn&#x27;t that have severe implications for other markets?

It&#x27;s ridiculous these days watching any sports content, the amount of betting related ads is outrageous. I see no other outcome than droves of new gambling addicts.

In the mid-90s, a local dial-up ISP sent their support calls to me. I once put a local retiree couple online and went on my way. About 6 months later I came back to fix their connection which he promptly tested at a gambling site.<p>I also did service calls at their friends and neighbors. They said that since getting online he&#x27;d gambled away their retirement, maxed out their credit cards, got new cards &amp; maxed those, took out a 2nd mortgage and gambled that off. That they&#x27;d lose the house was a certainty. The wife may not have known yet just how bad off they were.<p>I don&#x27;t have a more depressing tech story.