Addiction or Profession?
Terrence and I went to the Vancouver Public Library today, and as part of their “Addiction Awareness Month” they had a display on gambling addiction.
Related Gambling News:
- States, gambling profession must do more to halt addiction
- Counselor: gambling âworst kind’ of addiction
- Man with gambling addiction given more time to repay former employers
- Beating a Gambling Addiction
- Gambling addiction in Nevada triples national average
- Poker’s Great White Shark
- The Science of Gambling Addiction
- Lecture to explain gambling addiction
- Search is on for drugs to treat gambling addiction
- When gambling’s a compulsion
- GAMBLING ADDICTION DESTROYS LIVES
- How to Bet on Boxing
Interesting gambling information:
- Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
- In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
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