10-Jan-06. Lotto ticket sellers urged to bar problem gamblers. Edmonton Journal, A1.

Quebec’s coroner wants retailers of lottery tickets in the province to be made aware of compulsive gamblers in their neighbourhoods so that they could refuse to sell tickets to at-risk customers. Ticket sellers and Loto-Quebec officials say the suggestion is both impractical and impossible to implement. Coroner Jean Francois Dorval made the recommendation after an inquest into the suicide of a 62-year-old Quebec man who killed himself after spending about $400 to $500 a week on lottery tickets.