Consultation sought on problem gambling service
The Ministry of Health is seeking submissions on its draft Consultation Document which includes a Service Plan, Needs Assessment and Levy Calculations for preventing and minimising gambling harm over the three-years 2007-2010.
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Interesting gambling information:
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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