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Digital Addiction Awareness Day is a global initiative committed to shedding light on the pervasive risks associated with online addiction. Our mission is to highlight the detrimental impact of profit-driven and exploitative technologies on mental
#BanOnlineGambling 🤳.
Online Gambling is the largest manufacturer of Depression, Distress, Suicides, and Divorce.
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September 10, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Honorable leaders and ministers, we urge you to act swiftly, Ban online gambling, a menace that's causing harm and distress. Protect our citizens, especially youth, from its destructive grasp, take immediate action, and ban online gambling at the earliest. #banonlinegambling
September 9, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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This is where all religions unite for humanity, Against Gambling!

Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, all faiths condemns this destructive force that fuels addiction, poverty, and suffering

The warning comes following a series of suicides @AlAzhar

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Al-Azhar warns against online betting apps after gambling-related suicide - Society - Egypt
Al-Azhar has strongly warned against the rise of online groups and apps focused on betting on sports match results, describing it as “prohibited gambling.” The warning comes following a series of suic...
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September 8, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Please, noble representatives, protect us from the abyss of online gambling, lest we surrender our last shreds of dignity and sanity. Pretty please, with a legislative ban on top? #BanOnlineGambling 🌎
September 9, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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Delete all the gambling and betting Apps now!
September 8, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Falling democracy + corrupt leaders = toxic sales machine 🚨

One can sell poison with a smile, backed by national ads and social media, just sprinkle some cash on pet projects like schools, charity, and healthcare

Revenue share = silence
Alas! #BanOnlineGambling
September 7, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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Social media influencers growing in the gambling world, flaunting high-dollar lifestyles, taking big payouts from gambling companies, and opening the doors to addiction for their followers
#BanGamblingAds
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Can You Trust a Sports Betting Influencer?
In the age of widespread legal sports betting, influencers peddle picks and advice. But tips can quickly become predatory.
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September 6, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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he lost ₹20,000 in online gambling and borrowed money from a friend to pay it off. It was this friend’s pressure to repay the debt, police said, that prompted him to launch his elaborate plan, which ended in the murder of the nine-year-old girl.
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September 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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And these days they are practically begging you to do it with the amount of advertisements and promos you see.

But when I want to place a bet that will undoubtedly lose, I need to walk to my building's smelly trash-chute room.

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Sports gambling is bigger than ever. It's also gotten incredibly weird. | Business Insider India
The legalization of online sports betting has thrust the industry in the mainstream. But the market still has plenty of kinks to work out.
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September 5, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Ippa Venkatesh, a 40-year-old software engineer from Reddy Colony, lived with his wife Varshini and their two children, aged 11 and 2, had developed a dangerous addiction to online gaming, accumulated significant debt by borrowing money from...
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September 4, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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American Heart Association: Sports #betting has changed. "You don't sleep as well. You go to the ER more. You're less likely to have insurance, or you're less likely to do the healthy self-care stuff, like exercise and eat healthy foods." (@fongster98)
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Sports betting has changed. Could it affect your health?
Placing bets on sporting events has never been easier. Experts explain the unexpected ways gambling could affect the health of some gamblers.
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September 4, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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September 3, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Vincent kept his son on the phone as he drove to find him, telling him “the only thing that we can’t solve is you jumping off a cliff”.

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Dangerous play: how online gaming purchases led an Australian youth into a secret gambling addiction
Matthew’s* father had no idea his son was even gambling, let alone deep in debt, until he got a terrifying phone callGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
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September 1, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Impulse to bet on sports is devastating families across the state. many clients, chased bets, losing more and more money, and eventually losing their homes or possessions. the impulse to bet on sports is devastating families across the state. #BanOnlineGambling

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August 30, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Online gambling is appealing to the territory's young people as a fast route out of poverty and unemployment. But once they start, some are struggling to stop.

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Kashmir's online gambling addicts
Online gambling is appealing to the territory's young people as a fast route out of poverty and unemployment. But once they start, some are struggling to stop.
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August 29, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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Gambling has highest suicide rates than any other known addiction.
Gamblers are 15 times more likely to take their own lives than non-gamblers.
August 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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“It’s not just moving entertainment dollars from one company to another,” Baker said. “Rather, they’re drawing from sources of their household budget that policymakers are trying to increase” like stock investment accounts, he said.
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Sports gambling takes a toll on Americans' checkbooks, research shows
Two new studies quantify the effect of legalized and expanded sports betting on investments and savings.
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August 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Online sports betting legalization threatens vulnerable minds, exploits addiction, and destroys lives. It's time to :

TRASH THE BILLS
REJECT THE LOBBY
SILENCE THE ADVOCATES

Protect our future, not gambling interests!
August 26, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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We will call "Gambling as Gaming"
We will say gaming but mean Gambling. Will say gambling is illegal in India 🇮🇳 but will suck the entire country into Gambling. Will put Gambling logos on Men Chests and Women Breasts 👙 Sports jerseys.
Gaming gaming, not gambling
August 26, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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The plea contends that these apps are addictive and have resulted in financial losses to many users, pushing some to the point of suicide.

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Bombay High Court: PIL Seeks Ban On Online Gambling Apps Over Addiction And Suicides
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August 24, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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What is wrong with Australia Government, waiting for People to come on streets ? Ban gambling now!

Anything less than a comprehensive ban on online gambling advertising will do nothing to protect Australians falling into the grips of gambling addiction. Steve Robson
August 23, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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August 22, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Repeated reminder - Gambling is a substitute economy 🚨 Kills other forms of spending

The authors estimate that legalization reduces net investments by bettors by nearly 14%, and that every dollar spent on sports betting reduces net investment by $2.13.

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The explosion of online sports betting is taking a toll on how people invest
While sports betting has put considerable sums into state coffers, it has come at a notable personal expense to gamblers and their families.
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August 21, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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🚨New Publication Alert! Using data from an online panel in the U.S., we examined (1) the extent to which cryptocurrency trading, day trading, and gambling are associated, (2) relationships between crypto trading, day trading, and high risk Gambling
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Cryptocurrency Trading, Day Trading, and Gambling Behavior: Examining the Moderating Effects of Financially Focused Self-Concept and Gambling Motives - Journal of Gambling Studies
Cryptocurrency and day trading have grown in popularity over the past decade following the creation of the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, in 2009. These activities share important features with gambli...
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August 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM