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====Gambling is betting to win money, and it includes casinos, online gambling, sports gambling and so on. Some countries such as Singapore, Australia and Italy have casinos and permit gambling. On the contrary, some countries such as Japan, Turkey and the Netherlands have made gambling illegal. Therefore, should gambling be legalized? Gambling should be made illegal because it harms an individual, the society, and the economy in many ways. ====

====Gambling can cause disruptions in the psychology, finance and family life of a gambler. Psychologically, when a gambler gets addicted to gambling, he is completely hooked to it. This leads to a mental disorder resulting in his disability to control his gambling behavior. Therefore, the gambler could suffer from migraines, distress, depression, intestinal disorders and other problems related to anxiety when he is not gambling. Financially, after losing money, a gambler needs to borrow money to satisfy his desire to gamble, which ends up in severe debt and bankruptcy. This financial pressure makes gamblers have depression as well as serious family problems such as divorces and family breakdowns. Sometimes, this kind of depression and family disaster can turn out to be suicide or murdering. Gambling certainly affects an individual’s life for the worse. ====

====Gambling not only hurts an individual, but also is detrimental for the society. Statistics show that kids below 18 years old who begin gambling have a higher tendency to drop out of schools; hence, become uneducated. Les Bernal, the National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling proclaimed that drawing more young people to gambling was not okay. According to the research data, poor people are more easily tempted to gamble since they think gambling is an easier and faster way to become rich. However, the truth is, these poor gamblers lose money and end up in a severe debt, then become even poorer than they were before. Moreover, some gamblers may rob because they need money for further gambling, which increases the rate of crime. Gambling also raises the rate of alcohol abuse, drug abuse and suicide. Undoubtedly, gambling is harmful to the society. ====

====You may think that gambling is beneficial for the economy, but the fact is, gambling adversely affects the economy. Due to lots of crimes in the casino’s area, tourists do not want to come, which has a negative impact on the tourism industry of that area. Secondly, casinos divert money that could have been spent on consumer products into gambling. That does not help the economy because money that goes into a casino cannot be invested, reused nor loaned again. Many jobless gamblers who rely on welfare and unemployment benefits cost the government billions of dollars per year. Therefore, the whole country’s economy drops. Gambling is extremely harmful to a country’s economy. ====

====Since gambling is harmful to an individual, the society, and the economy in many ways, it should be made illegal.Many people argue that gambling can make people wealthy; nevertheless the math proves that they are wrong. It shows that the probability of winning with a prize by slot machines ranges from one out of 5,000 to one out of 34 million. In fact, the more a person gambles, the more money he or she will lose.Now, you know how harmful gambling is, so we should definitely illegalize it. ====