Adolescent gambling on the Internet

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A national Internet gambling prevalence survey of 2,098 people in the UK by Griffiths (2001) included data from 119 adolescents (aged 15 to 19 years).
No teenagers reported gambling on the Internet, but 4% of teenagers said they would like to try online gambling.
Another study in Canada suggested at least a quarter of young people with serious gambling problems may be gambling on the Internet using ‘free play’ sites (for ‘practice’ and ‘demonstration’ purposes) (Hardoon, Derevensky & Gupta, 2002).

One in 12 young people aged 12 to 15 years (8%) said they had played a lottery game on the Internet in the past year. (Griffiths & Wood, 2007)
1% reported gambling on the Internet for money in the seven days prior to the survey. (Ipsos MORI, 2009)
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