The internet is said to have made gambling a lot easier; gone are the days when people had to go to a male-dominated, smoky "bookies" to place a wager. We can now gamble in the comfort of our own home - that is, in the private sphere, often in isolation. What are the social (and other) consequences of this? It was widely speculated that deregulation and internet gambling would lead to increases in addiction and "problem gambling". However, a recent report suggests that this is not the case: 6% of people questioned used the internet to gamble online and around 250,000 in total were problem gamblers (of internet gamblers 7.4% weere considered to have a problem.
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7001329.stm).
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