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At your Leisure - 25 October 2004
UK Gambling Laws
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- Industry worth over £60 bn
- 9000 betting offices
- 122 casinos
- £3.5 bn exchanged for casino 'chips'
- Winners and Losers?
- Industry stands to make £millions in profits
- UK Govt tax revenues likely to rise
- Consumers gain world class venues
- But addiction rates likely to rise fast
- Are leisure companies ready?
- MGM Mirage plans £1 bn investment
- Caesar's Entertainments £335 m in Wembley, London
- Las Vegas Sands plans £210 m spending
- Isle of Capri planning to spend £350m in UK
- UK firms Gala, Rank and Stanley all to invest
- Help!
- GamCare supports gamblers with problems
- Gamble for fun, not for profit
- Set limits and stick to them
- Quit while you're up
- Only gamble with money you can afford to lose
- If you can't afford it, don't play
- Changes in gambling patterns
- Socially accepted
- Leisure activity
- Technological change
- The Gambling Bill
- Super-casinos
- 24 hour access
- Up to 1250 slot machines in each resort
- Remove slot machines from fast food outlets and taxi offices
- Create new regulator - the Gambling Commission
- Preventing crime and disorder
- Ensuring fairness and openness
- Protecting children and the vulnerable
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