2. DEFINITION GAMBLING
• Gambling means to stake or risk money, or anything
of value, on the outcome of something involving
chance.

3. TYPES OF GAMBLERS
• Professional
• Casual Social Gambler
• Serious Social Gambler
• Relief-and-Escape Gambler
• Compulsive Gambler

4. NEGATIVE IMPACTS
• addictive and psychologically harmful
• gambling leads to the disintegration of families
• gambling affects poor people disproportionately.

5. ADDICTIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARMFUL
• Gambling can become a psychologically addictive behavior in
some people.
• people end up gambling to try to recover money they have
already lost. This is known as ‘chasing losses’.
• It results in people staking more and more money, most of which
they will lose, and sinking deeper and deeper into debt.
• Once that happens, it is often too late.

6. THE DISINTEGRATION OF FAMILIES
• A devastating effect on families.
• Gambling the other needs to support the whole family or the
gambler may even gamble away joint savings.
• Psychologically there is a relationship between gambling and
various psychiatric and alcohol disorders.
• This is also an impact on friends, who do not want to be tied into
supporting gambling financially or even just emotionally.
• There are 10-15 other people adversely impacted by the
gambling of that person.

7. AFFECTS POOR PEOPLE
DISPROPORTIONATELY
• Poor people are more likely to gamble, in the hope of getting
rich.
• About 80 percent of gambling revenue came from lower-income
households
• It is immoral for the state or charities to raise money by
exploiting people’s stupidity and greed.
• Taxing gambling is a regressive tax, and regressive taxation is
deeply unfair.
• Gambling attracts people with little money who are desperate for
a windfall.

8. IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A SAFE BET?
• All gambling or betting has an element of risk
• Lessen the chance you'll develop a gambling problem by:
• limiting the amount of money you bet
• limiting the amount of time you spend betting
• continuing with other social opportunities
• not spending your winnings on gambling

9. CONCLUSION
• Gambling is a severe problem caused by ones
inability to control the gambling.
• Therefore, the link below has several tips to stop
gambling:
http://michelletee.hubpages.com/hub/Gambling-
Addiction10-Ways-To-Stop-Gambling-Before-It-Is-
Too-Late