This document defines gambling and discusses the types of gamblers. It outlines the negative impacts of gambling such as it being addictive and psychologically harmful, leading to the disintegration of families, and affecting poor people disproportionately. Specific negative impacts discussed include gambling addiction and chasing losses, devastation of families, and gambling exploiting the poor. The document provides tips to lessen the risk of developing a gambling problem such as limiting time and money spent gambling. It concludes that gambling addiction stems from an inability to control gambling and provides a link to further tips on stopping gambling.

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