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According to gambling consultant Steve Donaughue, after Gambling Commission put an end to credit card usage for betting purposes, he believes that there can be an 80% chance gambling will turn into new tobacco with no advertisings and with restrains on marketing.
That's beacuse the new restrictions and regulations are a part of a new national approach to problem gamblers: - the more gambling is restricted, the more you reduce the problem - he said - but that's not true, because gamblers will go to the black market, where there are no protections. So the only solution so far, for him is to transform gambling into the new tobacco industry and to create a chance to nationalise gambling with one national organisation run by the state.
