Реферат: Legalized Gambling Essay Research Paper Through the

The growth in gambling venues has greatly increased

the chances for an average person to gamble legally. This

growth, in turn, has exponentially increased the number of

gamblers. By the year 2000, 95% of Americans will live

within a 3-4 hour drive of a casino.13 Today, the only

two states without any kind of legal gambling are Hawaii

and Utah.14 Because of this, the amount of money gambled

legally in 1993 was 2,300% higher than the amount wagered

in 1974.15 From 1982-1990, Americans increased their

amount of money they gambled over twice as much as their

incomes increased.16

Despite the growth of this new “clean” gambling

industry, the results of gambling remain frightfully

dangerous. Casino owners, while no longer street

hoodlums, are still mercilessly preying on the weakness of

their clients. The owners of these gambling institutions

have two rules: get the people to start playing and keep

them playing.17 They make their casinos more enticing for

the average person by making themselves look like good

citizens. Casino owners make donations to local charities

and schools and run lucrative adds sounding as if making

money at their casino will be easy and fun.18 The

industry has also stayed up with the times making betting

easier, more appealing, and more exciting.19 Harrah’s

casino spends thousands of dollars each year to see

whether fresher air, wider aisles, and back supports can

increase gambling. The Hilton in Las Vegas even went so

far as to release a scent called “Odorant 1″, produced by

Alan Hirsch, a Chicago neurologist. This scent made the