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Americans are a risk-taking people in many respects. It’s a safe bet, then, that many of them would be attracted to gambling. And so they are, according to a new Gallup poll. Taking into account people’s answers when queried about 11 forms of gambling, Gallup figures that 66 percent of adults—75 percent of men and 57 percent of women—gambled during the previous 12 months.

State lotteries are the form of gambling with the most participants, the survey finds: 49 percent of respondents bought a lottery ticket in the past 12 months.

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