Should gambling adverts be banned?

9:55am Friday 25th January 2013 in Somerset

Should gambling adverts be banned? Should gambling adverts be banned?

DO you reckon there's too much TV advertising for gambling?

You can't seem to get away from it during sports programmes on TV.

Have you or someone you know got addicted to betting because of the in-your-face advertising?

Let's have your views/stories please for a feature in the Somerset County Gazette - either here on e-mail phil.hill@countygazette.co.uk or call 01823 365100.

Comments(6)

Slow down! says...
10:23am Fri 25 Jan 13

Why are you doing a story about this?

I'd rather have some local news about local events seeing as you're a local newspaper!

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Mark1970 says...
11:20am Fri 25 Jan 13

Although I do agree with you slow down, but we do have gamblers in Somerset and in Taunton you know.

People who are in the bookies all day placing bets, and on the casino games.

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Useacarpark.com says...
11:30am Fri 25 Jan 13

It would be interesting to see the bookies takings if benefits were paid out in food/fuel vouchers etc, rather than cash straight into their banks to spend on what they like.

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Slow down! says...
1:54pm Fri 25 Jan 13

But its up to them Mark, some people buy clothes and shoes that they don't need every weekend on credit cards should we be concerned about that form of advertising too?

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*Flick* says...
11:45am Mon 28 Jan 13

"Have you or someone you know got addicted to betting because of the in-your-face advertising?"
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I'm not sure that anyone gets addicted to betting soley because of the advertising. People get addicted to all sorts of things, it doesn't mean we should ban advertising on everything that someone could possibly become addicted too.

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FreeSpeech? says...
5:46pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Fed up to the eyeballs of the ban this, ban that mentality in this country whenever something is seen as bad for a minority. How about we ban reality shows as they make the dim demented, paying taxes as they cause hardship, stress and financial ruin, car adverts as driving one could cause an accident and party political broadcasts as they're full of lies.
Feel better now I've got that off my chest.

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