February 20, 2007

20-Feb-07. Click of mouse and you can lose your house. Edmonton Journal, C9.

This article reports that the unfettered accessibility of gambling over the Internet is a potentially huge problem. In an ongoing study of online gambling, University of Lethbridge professors Robert Williams and Robert Wood have found that those who gamble on the Internet are 10 times more likely to be problem gamblers than those who use other forms of gambling. In addition, half of the Internet gamblers in their study are age 21 or younger.