[Madhatter]

I'm glad it's banned, it gets people hooked, it's like having a bag of heroin sitting on the table in your living room with your family being there. The consequences of getting hooked on gambling are beyond thinking about, you can loose everything, including your job family and life, once hooked its incredibly difficult to kick the habit, as the drug is everywhere even in the pub, to us a bandit is five minutes fun, to someone hooked its a fix. It's wrong, it's the wrong place for it. a gambling club is ok, you go there on purpose, it's planned and most people are fully aware of what they're going there for and are in control, on the net at home the curiosity factor is all to easy for people who aren't aware.
The only way to kick a gambling addiction is find something else to replace it.