'When we tried to tackle smoking in the past, this was one of the avenues for trying to take away the glorification of it.' Do we need a total ban on gambling advertising?
that the Government’s strategy will only ban the ads between 9 pm and 5:30 am – leaving a ‘kind of a free-for-all’ for gambling companies during the day.Deputy Ó Riordáin said “social control over gambling” no longer exists due to the prevalence of online gambling.
“When you see at the level of sports advertising takes place – the advertising on the shirts and around billboards at games – we have to put in some level of control,” he said. “We really think you have to have a blanket ban because a lot of this gambling will take place online late at night. “If somebody has a drug addiction or an alcohol addiction, you can sometimes see that – there's something very physical about it,” he said.
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