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Trimbos calls for advertising ban covering all gambling products

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Trimbos has urged Dutch MPs to seek a ban on advertising for all gambling products, arguing that a proposed restriction limited to online gambling could shift marketing elsewhere. The institute also criticised delaying a planned increase in the minimum online gambling age to 21. It cited research stating that 15% of young adults who currently gamble online would seek other ways to gamble if the age limit rose.

The proposals would affect gambling advertising and the planned minimum age for online gambling in the Netherlands.

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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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