Stop Predatory Gambling

The Swindle Flu

by spgadmin

Workers are sanitizing Harrah’s Cherokee (NC) Casino after 200 people became ill at the facility. Officials at the casino said that those 200 people, which include both guests and employees, reported nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

The Jackson County Health Department said it is an outbreak of gastrointestinal distress and are running tests to determine what kind of virus may have caused the outbreak. Casino officials said they are working with the Health Department to stop the illness from spreading.

Yet casinos like Harrahs make hundreds of thousands of people sick every year by pushing highly addictive gambling products like electronic gambling machines, turning them into gambling addicts. The machines are designed to treat every user like a potential addict.

We have had an outbreak of problem gambling and it is time public officials ran “tests” on electronic gambling machines, the environment in which they operate and the predatory marketing behind it all.

Only then will America know the facts behind the massive outbreak of the Swindle Flu that has afflicted millions of people and their families.