When I started out in education and I was in a social gathering, the conversation was always about the teacher, or something that happened in school. I then got into the hockey arena, and in these social settings, the conversation was about the hockey coach, or the hockey problem. Do you know what's happening now? The conversation is about gambling.
Oftentimes when I'm speaking to parents, it's about the impact that gambling is having on the future of our young people. The CAMH here in Ontario shared, in its review of literature, that “there is a causal relationship between people’s exposure to gambling advertising and their intentions to gamble”.
One of the issues.... A parent just shared this with me. An alcoholic can stay away from that environment. If you don't like tobacco smoke, you can just do things to separate yourself from it. When it comes to gambling, you can't really get away from it, especially if you're addicted to it.