Gambling opportunities continue to expand in spite of evidence of harms from mental-health effects to financial problems
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto just released a report on another industry that in various ways harms health — gambling.
The StatsCan report noted that “1.6 percent of past-year gamblers were at a moderate-to-severe risk of problems related to gambling.” And worryingly, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health study reported that while 1.2 per cent of adults in Ontario are experiencing or are at risk for gambling problems, the rate is almost 50 per cent higher in high-school students.
However, as a source of government revenue, gambling is unjust. First, only two-thirds of us play and pay, and second, it is a regressive form of taxation.
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