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Brits Spend 50 Billion Pounds Sterling on Gambling

A recent study in United Kingdom shows that the Britons have spent 50 Billion pounds sterling or $89 billion on roulette and other popular casino games. The study was made and recently publicized by Nottingham Trent University.

If the result of the study will be divided by the state population with the number of children, women and men included, it would mean that 800 pounds sterling were spent per person.

The gaming industry owns this figures literally to the UK government itself. Last year, the UK government implemented measures that relaxed gaming policies in UK.

But along with the positive results of game revenue growths is the negative impact of gambling in society.

With a wide explosion of gambling, gambling addiction is continually increasing.

Gambling addicts are estimated to have reached more than three hundred thousand people in the UK alone. According to a study, Brits are addicted to roulette wheels and other popular casino games.

Casinos are very wide spread and the Brits have a wide range of choices where they will gamble.

Across the state, there are one hundred thirty small casinos and around eight thousand five hundred betting shops that accept bets on dogs, horses, slot machines and virtual roulette wheels.

 

Monday, 24. 2006
Gerald Kernighan