The number of young adult gamblers has increased explosively since the Netherlands legalized online gambling in 2021. Since that year, the number of active online gambling accounts registered to young adults aged 18 to 24 has increased by 340 percent to almost 300,000, Nieuswuur reported based on figures from the Netherlands Gambling Authority. A quarter of active online gambling accounts …
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Thais are expected to wager up to $1.6bn on football matches during the Qatar World Cup. “World Cup fever will spur a 50-percent increase in gambling newcomers,” Thanakorn Komkris, the secretary of the Stop Gambling Foundation, told Al Jazeera. “But what’s sad is that about one-quarter of those newcomers will turn into regular gamblers based on our experience with past …
