Time to ban all gambling advertising and sponsorships - Yorkshire Post Letters

According to a new report around 1.6m UK children are growing up in households where an adult is experiencing "gambling problems". It went on to say that children exposed to gambling are also four times more likely to go on to experience such gambling issues themselves (The Yorkshire Post, August 21).

This is a frightening statistic, and one that surely demands significant action to address this without delay.

In many ways it is no surprise with gambling adverts and sponsorships allowed to inhabit all aspects of everyone's lives.

It really has to be time to ban all gambling advertising and sponsorships, which continue to do untold harm.

We hear far too often about how well betting companies are doing, but which, in my view, is not good news at all. They all need to be severely reined in - and the sooner the better.