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Internet 'not increasing gambling'
Thursday 20th September 2007, by Daniel King
The growth of the internet and other technologies is not having a major effect on gambling addiction rates in the UK, according to a new report.
While access to broadband and the number of online gaming sites is increasing, the number of people gambling in the country has dropped over the past eight years.
According to the Gambling Prevalence Study by the Gambling Commission, six per cent of the UK adult population have used broadband sites, such as betfair.com, to gamble in 2007. Overall, due to a drop in sales of the National Lottery, the amount of people gambling has dropped from 72 per cent to 68 per cent.
Commission chairman Peter Dean told the BBC: "There are a significant number of people who do gamble online, we've been tracking those, but as I say the overall result is there is no increase at all in problem gambling since the last survey."
In 2005, broadband users across the world spent at estimated $200 million (£99 million) a month on online poker games.
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