Gambling is an addiction. There’s nothing better to describe gambling other than a disease that can cause a lot of problem to the gamblers and their families. The same like drugs, it is addictive.

I am not sure how most people in Singapore see it as, but from my personal point of view, it will only lead to bad outcome rather than good.

With easy access to credit cards, most gamblers will jump into the wagon of debt by applying more than one credit card just to pay off their gambling debt. The complacency towards incurring debt, together with the growing acceptability to gambling is suicidal!

Is there such thing like gambling for leisure or healthy gambling? I’m not sure if I’ve missed something but I think this is one biggest joke I’ve heard for a very long time.

Be realistic – can a gambler put a stop loss and tell himself, OK – I lost today and call it a quit? I doubt so. Instead what will they do when they have already run out of cash? Apply more credit card or even buy electronic products on hire purchase to sell it of for instant cash at a lower price. Thus making situation from bad to worst!

We are slowly becoming a society of gamblers if this trend continues. As more people here see gambling as a leisure activity, more are getting into it at a younger age. Let this trend continues and very soon, 10 years from now, all we can hear our younger generation talking is about gambling and how easy one can make money from gambling.

With football betting readily available from Singapore Pools outlets, we can see even our school children talking about betting.

What good can this do to our society?