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What I Lost By Gambling  Premium Content - Click for Info

With every trip to the grocery store, I'd purchase thirty dollars worth of lottery tickets.

Based on recent statistics, Americans spend more money-roughly $500 billion a year-on legal gambling than they spend on groceries. But what's even more shocking are the results of a recent survey by Yankelovich Partners and the Home Testing Institute: An alarming number of those gambling-55 percent-are women. Seduced by the allure of luxury casinos, the rush of winning "easy money," or the convenience ...

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