Spain's Royal Decree: let the battle commence
Industry consultant Eduardo Morales-Hermo demands to know why the Spanish government is targeting private gambling firms with tighter ad restrictions
Demonisation of gambling
Alarmist fabrication
- The incidence of problem gambling in Spain is between 0.3% and 0.5% of the population between 15 and 65-years-old – EDADES and ESTUDES, from the National Plan on Drugs.
- It is about equating the reason for applying prohibitive restrictive measures to the online gambling and betting sector, with those applicable to tobacco and alcoholic beverages, which are medically ruled substances with a level of addiction of 34% and 5.1 % respectively – EDADES and ESTUDES, of the National Plan on Drugs.
- Spain is the second country in Europe to have the lowest incidence of problem gambling with 0.3% of the population between 15 and 65 years of age.