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added on 2010-10-22 01:44:43
A recent study of the Annenberg Adolescent Communication Institute of the University of Pennsylvania has shown a big increase in the number of college and high-school students who access the online gambling websites.
According to the researchers, 16 percent of the male college students gamble at least once a month, compared to a 4.4 percent increase in 2008. Also, 1.5 percent of the high-school female students visit the online gambling websites on a monthly basis, compared to a 0.5 percent rate in 2008. The number of the high-school male students also showed an increase from 2.7 percent to 6.2 percent.
The same study has shown 400,000 college males gamble on a weekly basis and 1.7 million gamble every month. 500,000 high-school students gamble online every month, as well.
“The dramatic increase in use of online gambling by college-aged male youth indicates that payment restrictions on such sites are no longer a barrier to young people,” said the ACI director Dan Romer.
The telephone study was conducted on 835 respondents in 2008 and 596 respondents in 2010. The interviewed students were aged 14 to 22.
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