Hi, I'm glad to read the paragraph from a former particpant of 2005' I hope more get on line to reply & also read. So far so good for me, it's been over a wk. since I've been to the casino, but I know I have a long way to go. And with grace of God and hopefully this establishment I'll do this time.

Despite the negative consequences?

Canadians lined up to spend more than $130 million on Lotto Max tickets in the last seven days, even as Queen's University math professor David Thomson reminded us lotteries are a "voluntary tax on the stupid."

You have, he calculated, a slightly better chance of being hit by lightning twice than of winning the $50-million jackpot. When you plunk down $5 for a Lotto Max ticket, you should know the lottery corporations only put $2.40 of it into a prize pool.

Lotteries can be a harmless waste of a few dollars for the chance to dream.

A shocking new study has found that half of all Tasmanian gambling addicts who committed a crime as a result of their habit were first-time offenders who held senior management positions or positions of trust.

In the past five years, 41 people have appeared in the Tasmanian Supreme Court charged over gambling-related thefts involving $6.8 million.

The largest theft was $4.5 million and the smallest $539.

The cost to the Tasmanian taxpayer to jail the offenders was $3.8 million, or an average of $263 a person a day.

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