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House of Lords committee urges UK-wide gambling advertising ban

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The House of Lords Liaison Committee recommended a comprehensive gambling advertising ban across the UK in a follow-up report. It said gambling harm affects up to 1.5 million adults in Britain and proposed retaining on-course horseracing and greyhound racing advertising; it also called for an assessment of lottery advertising risks.

Operators may face a broad advertising prohibition, with possible exceptions for racing and lottery advertising subject to review.

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Researchers urge Britain to ban gambling advertising across all channels

Reportedly, Researchers have called for Britain to prohibit all gambling advertising. They want the proposed prohibition on sponsorship by unlicensed gambling businesses extended across every advertising channel.

The Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) consortium has called on the British government to extend proposed restrictions on sports sponsorship by unlicensed gambling businesses to licensed operators and to all gambling advertising channels. The group made the call in its response to a Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) consultation on prohibiting sponsorship by unlicensed gambling firms, which closed on 9 September. The government has not announced its conclusions, according to the source.

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