Lottery Ad Standards Urged

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A Congressional commission pondering the social and economic effects of gambling may ask states to follow a code of conduct in their lottery advertising.
The proposal arose as the National Gambling Impact Study Commission evaluates the social and economic effects of gaming.
“We need to make specific recommendations to the states to improve advertising,” commission chairman Kay Cole James said at a hearing Friday in Washington. The commission heard testimony suggesting that states have no business advertising what is essentially a vice.

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