(4). For example, I don’t smoke and I think some of these advertisements for quitting are a bit extreme. I pay absolutely no attention to them at all because it plays no role in my life at this time. I personally think more media attention should be paid on gambling and not on smoking. Why is this? For one simple, I’ve had a problem with gambling in the past but I’ve never once tried a cigarette or anything else of the sort. I’m willing to admit I was wrong because we know smoking is a serious problem. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health and that is why the number of smokers has dramatically decreased in the past years. However, with gambling, there is no awareness created, therefore the number has increased dramatically over the past years.Another item that is left out is that most people don’t even know that gambling is an illegal action outside an established facility. It is illegal by law to pay to get into a pool for March madness. You can be arrested and thrown into jail for filling out a tournament bracket. However, this so called law in my opinion is the least enforced law out there. For God sake, police officers fill out brackets, I’m sure the president fills out brackets for a given pool. It is by far the most broken law in the U.S. today and people are blind to all of what goes on. How often do you fill out your brackets in public and worry about a cop coming up to you and putting the cuffs on you for illegal gambling? I’d probably ask if he had any hot tips on the upcoming games. If we would broadcast how people lose their life savings and go onto kill themselves because they made a bet they couldn’t afford to pay, I’d wonder if this would be taken so lightly.Another real problem people we can’t relate to is the physical and mental torture a compulsive gambler goes through each and every day. The key thing we must recognize and that hardly anyone does...
