It would seem so, view of the Italian passion for the game (Poker on line, Scratch and Win, Lotto, Betting, Football pool, etc.), shown by the latest statistics that remind us useful the value of the legal market of the games come in 2011 about 80 billion €, which we can add an amount almost equal to the estimated area 'illegal'.
These data confirm the search for enrichment of Italian families through various games and lotteries.
However, data relating to winnings (amounts higher premiums, distribution of winnings to frequent players, etc.) overall we confirm that participating in various games and lotteries is a source of enrichment that can be considered negligible.
If we consider that, on average,, about 30% the bets is income collected by the state in taxes (source: AAMS – Autonomous Administration of State Monopolies), it is deduced that perhaps the game is more frequently a source of impoverishment rather than enrichment.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus stated that "the hope of becoming rich is one of the most common causes of poverty".
The maximum is also confirmed by research from overseas who argue that in the U.S. a Homeless on five (Red Mullet, as he sang the late Enzo Whittaker in his song dialect successful El wore scarp de tennis), attributes his condition to gambling.
Meanwhile, a recent national research on the gambling habits of the Italians 2011, curated by the "Social Centre Pope John XXIII", and coordinated by CONAGGA (National Coordination Groups for gamblers) time to investigate the habits to gambling, argues that in Italy there are 1 million and 720 thousand players at risk addiction e am 708.225 adult players pathological, to which must be added 11% of pathological gamblers offenders and those at risk.
Therefore not only enriches us yes, but high risk of getting sick and impoverished.
Alex Gaetani
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