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Gambling is an issue that brings up many moral and ethical questions. Controversy over this topic has developed many legal issues also. Legal gambling has swept across the nation three times. The second wave ended shortly after the turn of the century. We are ....

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.... just as bad (Horn1). Fast-paced gambling, such as video gambling machines and casinos, maximize gambling addiction because of the number of wagering opportunities. The problem with gambling is that the odds always favor the house. The more that someone gambles against these odds, the more certain it becomes that they will lose. Gambling can become addicting very quickly, and then, when pathological gambling occurs, it rarely affects just the person doing the gambling. It affects family savings, college education and retirement funds disappear, and under the stress of losing all of these things, there are many compulsive gamblers that will comm ....