Liberal leader @RobertGhiz (2006) “Here in PEI, VLT gambling has increased the number of homeless people, suicides & family breakdowns. & government-sponsored gambling has turned hundreds of Islanders into compulsive and problem gamblers”
"Terminal Damage"
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/files/terminaldamage.pdf

From the excerpt: "VLTs have the particularly
unhealthy effect of hooking roughly 20 percent of those who play these highly addictive machines (Marshall and Wynne 2003"

"some studies show an alarming figure of 20 percent of problem gamblers regularly think about taking their own lives (Bailey 2003)"

Low-income households, which also tend to have
less educated members, spend a higher percentage of their annual incomes (2.2 percent) on gambling than high-wage earners (0.5 percent).7 Why? In short, because they are most vulnerable to the lure of the “big win,”