Word: lesieur
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...knowingly go after problem gamblers. But to answer the question there must be some agreed-upon definition of what constitutes a "problem" gambler, and here the industry and its critics are far apart. "Twenty percent of the customers account for 80% of the gambling industry's earnings," says Henry Lesieur, president of the Institute for Problem Gambling in Pawtucket, R.I. "We know that 5% to 6% of the total population are problem gamblers, and those 5% are spending 30% to 40% of the money." Critics charge that because the industry is so dependent on this small group, it appeals deliberately...
...studies indicate that teenage vulnerability to compulsive gambling hits every economic stratum and ethnic group. After surveying 2,700 high school students in four states, California psychologist Durand Jacobs concluded that students are 2 1/2 times as likely as adults to become problem gamblers. In another study, Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York, found eight times as many gambling addicts among college students as among adults...