(Jamma) Reusing the scheme already used for smoking, last March 21 the honorable Colomba Mongiello introduced a bill in the House to protect those who play and warn that playing "seriously damages your health". The text entitled "Provisions concerning the labeling of instant lottery tickets and the prevention of gambling addiction" is currently "searching" for other colleagues' signatures waiting to be published. “I have re-proposed this bill – explained the honorable Mongiello – already incardinated in the Senate whose process was started in the last legislature because it brings a series of safeguards and protections for those who play. Given that the "desperation tax" affects segments of the population ranging from young people to retirees".
"The rule - he continues - already used in the battle against smoking, has the purpose of effectively warning the consumer about the indiscriminate use of the game". “I wanted to use the same pattern,” she points out. The bill includes sentences that warn the consumer that gambling "seriously damages health". And that it "creates serious addiction". “It is a disqualification formula for the indiscriminate use of the 'Scratcher'”, insists Mongiello. "Only in this way can we make people understand how much gambling addiction and gambling addiction cost society". It all started, concludes the Pd deputy, “from what I observed in the tobacconist near my house. From the comings and goings of the people who constantly went to play every day".
