Stop Gambling

Stop Online Gambling

Gambling over the internet first became available to users of the World Wide Web back in the mid-1990’s when the Caribbean islands began issuing licenses to individuals and companies to enable them to operate gaming websites of this type in a legal manner. The individuals who owned the online gambling websites would pay the Caribbean government to operate such sites. From that time to the present, online gambling websites have been widely utilized and by the looks of it, it does not appear that they will lose popularity any time soon.

There are a few reasons why online gambling can be such an addictive habit. One reason why this is so revolves around the convenience of online gambling. One can sit in the comfort of his own home, go online and wager large amounts of money on automated games such as blackjack, poker, roulette and more. The only things an individual needs to be able to gamble online are a computer, internet access and a credit card. Once those things are obtained, that person can start playing games online for money. With any addiction, convenience not only fuels the fire but is the main reason behind the crash and burn aspect of it all. It is very hard to resist something that is at the tip of your fingers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Another addictive quality of online gambling is the temptation that if you play, you may win money. There are many people out in the world today that are looking for get rich quick schemes in order to make a living. The aspect of knowing that if you play just one more game you might be able to win a lot of money is very tempting. This propels the individual to play more and more each day, therefore forming an addiction to online gambling. Money makes individuals do foolish things sometimes.

Fortunately for individuals who are battling an online addiction, there are people and organizations available to help rid one of this terrible type of addiction. Gamblers Anonymous was organized back in 1957 in Los Angeles, California for the primary reason of helping individuals beat their gambling addiction. Today, Gamblers Anonymous focuses not only on gambling in a casino type setting but on online gambling problems as well. The basis of Gamblers Anonymous is to organize a place for individuals with gambling problems to meet anonymously and talk about the reasons behind their addiction and what can be done to help them through these hard times. We need to stop online gambling.

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HISTORY OF GAMBLING IN AMERICA:

1624 The Virginia Assembly decreed: "Mynisters shall not give themselves to excesse in drinking or yett spend their tyme idelie by day or night, playing at dice, cards or any unlawful game.".

1656 Card fiends in the Plymouth Colony were fined forty shillings (two pounds in 1661).[1]

1748 Benjamin Franklin helped organize a Pennsylvania lottery "to raise three thousand pounds for military supplies to defend Philadelphia against Frenchmen and Indians."

1765 The Stamp Act places a tax "upon every pack of playing cards and all dice... the sum of 1 shilling..."

1776 Congress organized a lottery of $5 million to rally a kitty for the war. [1]

1777 President Washington issued an order forbidding "all officers... and soldiers... playing at cards, or other games of chance... at this time of public distress men must find enough to do, in service of their God and their country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality." "...the commander in chief... forbids all officers and soldiers playing at cards, dice or any games except those of EXERCISE for diversion." [1]

1774-89 The Continental Congress issued orders to stop "extravagance and dissipation, horse racing, and all kinds of gaming or cock fighting."

1963 No state had a lottery. Only Nevada permitted casinos, though many states allowed betting on horse or dog races.

1975 The federal government allowed state lotteries to advertise on television and radio

1976 A national commission found 0.77% (1.1 million) of American adults were pathological gamblers.

1980 Commercial gambling casinos prohibited in every state except Nevada. Only 13 states had lotteries. Americans spent $17 billion on legal commercial gambling.

1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruled Native Americans could offer legal gambling games on reservations, without state regulation, if permitted anywhere in the state, in any form. (California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians).

1988 Congress enacted Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) to create orderly process for growth of Native American gambling establishments.

1976-1988 Casinos legalized in Atlantic City. The number of state lotteries doubled.

1989-1994 21 new states legalized gambling casinos legalized. 10 states authorize slot or video poker machines at racetracks, bars.

1995 A study found 5.4% of Iowa's adults (110,000 residents) were lifetime pathological or problem gamblers - up from 1.7% before riverboats came to the state in 1991. Americans spent $550 billion on legal gambling in 1995 (a 3,200% increase in 20 years!)

1996 President Clinton signed H.R. 497, the National Gambling Impact & Policy Commission Act to investigate gambling in America. Only Hawaii and Utah prohibited all forms of gambling. 37 states and D.C. run state lotteries. 28 states allow casinos. Gamblers legally bet over $586 billion annually.

1998 Over 40 riverboat casinos in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa. Nearly 50 riverboat and dockside casinos in Louisiana and Mississippi. Approximately 298 Indian casinos and bingo halls were operating in 31 states - up from 70 in 16 states in 1988. 48 states have legalized some form of gambling - lotteries, casinos, riverboat casinos, Indian casinos, video lottery machines, pari-mutuel betting (horse racing, dog racing, jai-alai).

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