Gambling Addiction

Lotteries have been called a tax on the poor. Ultimately at only a dollar or two a ticket, anyone can play the lotteries. However, many people become addicted to buying tickets and they can cause family or marital problems. In the rest of this discussion, I will be condemning gambling.
"Often, the people who really suffer from problem gambling aren't the gamblers" - this is a quote from the Anti - Gambling Television Commercial of Singapore. Yes, it is true. The people who suffer the consequences of gambling aren't the gamblers themselves, but their family mostly. Usually, when the gambler runs out of money to gamble, he turns to his family members for more money. Then after many times of asking for more money, the gambler's family will start to refuse. That is when either the gambler will become violent and hurt his family just for the money to gamble, or he will try to steal their money to gamble. Gambling is basically like drug addiction; it makes you do not want to stop.
Let's now discuss about buying lottery in Singapore. Buying lottery is not illegal, but it may become addictive for most Singaporeans - like gambling addiction. In fact, lottery is also a kind of gambling. Yes, the lotteries are cheap - only one or two dollars. However, one may think it is so cheap that he starts to buy more and more tickets! Lottery tickets nowadays are bought by not just men, but women too. In some cases, based on Youtube and NPR presentations, in some cases, people even lose their family, all their money and the lives they once knew.
Another thing is, the casino being built in Singapore is supposed to be a money-maker and job creator. However, many people have spoken against it. Why?
It is basically because many Singaporeans, not only tourists, will swarm there once it is fully completed and thus Singaporeans may become addicted to gambling there. Once again, I will condemn its construction and ultimately the hardships it will cause in Singapore in this second part of the discussion. A quote in an NPR presentation said that if the casinoes are non-smoking areas, then smoker-gamblers might stay home instead, thus reducing the number of gamblers.
Well, I kind of disagree with this point because smoker-gamblers might not smoke in the casino, but after that, they would go outside and smoke for all they like. This does not really affect the population of gamblers, does it?
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