Eleven Premier League teams start season with major bookmaker backing as industry watchdog report says stats can ‘mask’ scale of problem bettingOfficial figures on rates of problem gambling in Britain – which have been put as low as 0.3% – can “mask” the scale of harms by including people who never bet, a report published by the industry regulator has warned.Various surveys suggest a problem gambling rate in Britain in a range of between 0.3% to 2.5%. But in the new report that figure rose sharply when non-gamblers were excluded – and was even higher among those who gambled on online casinos. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/28/ban-gambling-sponsors-uk-sport-harms-premier-league-bookmaker-betting
Author : Jon Ungoed-Thomas
Publish date : 2024-07-28 07:00:48
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