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Ban all gambling advertisement in the UK.

Submitted on Monday 1st April 2019

Published on Tuesday 9th April 2019

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 9th October 2019

Signatures: 100

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Petition Action

Ban all gambling advertisement in the UK.

Petition Details

Its time to treat gambling addiction with the same severity as alcohol and drugs. I myself have been a victim and I know countless others who have been and are now in thousands of pounds worth of debt. Together we can prevent people falling carelessly into the same trap.

Additional Information

More than 2 million people in the UK are either problem gamblers or at risk of addiction, according to the industry regulator, which warned that the government and industry were not doing enough to tackle the problem.

The report by the Gambling Commission estimated that the number of British over-16s deemed to be problem gamblers had grown by a third in three years, suggesting that about 430,000 people suffer from a serious habit.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/24/problem-gamblers-uk-gambling-commission-report


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