Article November 11, 1991 Issue

POSITIVE PRESS

"Lotteries: profits at any cost? Massachusetts, like many states, walks ethical tightrope"

The Boston Globe

"With Massachusetts residents leading the nation in per capita lottery spending [an average of $240 per adult annually] ... troubling questions are being raised about the lottery boom here and across the nation, about whether states should be selling gambling with such corporate vigor or running their numbers games with the sole purpose of maximizing profits.

"There is something morally disconcerting about state governments using fast-talking advertising, promotional gimmicks and other advanced business techniques to hype an enterprise that promises an extremely unlikely bonanza, disproportionately hurts the poor and feeds the fixations of compulsive gamblers."

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