By RICK ALM/The Kansas City Star/6.20.04 www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/8966296.htm?1
It's pathetic and morally bankrupt to permit the gambling industry to inflict
addiction, business failures, crimes and escalating costs for police and
social services upon the neighborhood and call it justice and the people's choice.
The Rev. Marsue Harris is priest-in-charge of St. George's Episcopal Church, Newport
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"The gambling industry is as brazen as the tobacco and alcohol industry.
It's even more brazen," Citing the move toward family entertainment among
Las Vegas casinos, Ralph Nader said, "the gaming industry knows its future
depends on addicting youngsters. The idea is that parents will feel less guilty
if they are subjected to family entertainment, and that the next generation
of gambling addictees must be given attention."
"Marketing practices of the gaming industry and other businesses," he said,
"amount to corporate abuse of children."
Las Vegas Review Journal 6/13/98
