1 in 10 Aussies: sports bets ads are worse than booze or tobacco ads
Ten per cent of Australians think ads for sports bets are more harmful than booze or tobacco ads, according to a poll conducted by Crossman Insights.
The survey revealed that 63% of Australians believe that advertising from sports betting agencies lead to problem gambling, while one in 10 think these sort of ads are more harmful than alcohol or tobacco ads.
The announcement:
The results, revealed in a new survey series, Crossman Insights, initiated by Sydney-based public relations consultancy Crossman Communications using the Newspoll Online Omnibus, found that over a third of respondents (36%) want to ban sports betting agencies from sponsoring sporting teams or events. Even more Australians, four in ten (42%), believe that giving odds during live sports coverage should be illegal.
In other words, one in ten Australians don’t recall the days of legal “smoking is good for you” tobacco advertising.
Tim you have to do something on the ad that just went live for Tom Waterhouse sports betting. Now there’s an ad that is more likely to make you want to kill yourself.
“hi I’m Tom Waterhouse and I have so much money from mummy and daddy that I decided to make a website about myself that also takes people’s money.” seriously that’s the message I got from the ad. It was so pompous! Don’t know who they are trying to attract.
It needs to be stopped.
Every child growing up watching live sport will think betting is part of the game.
That’s wrong.
Preach it brother!
Agreed. Norrmalising sportsbetting is bad for society. People don’t setup betting agencies to lose money. They set them up to take money. The more the Government slackens the reigns, the more problem gamblers there will be. The positive relationship is obvious.