Prabhupada, Room Conversation with Member of the Mensa Society, September 4, 1971, London: ..For example, our boys, Europeans, American boys, they were addicted with illicit sex life. They were addicted to meat-eating. They were addicted drinking. They were addicted to gambling.
Now they’ve given up everything. There is no illicit sex in our society. There is no gambling. There is no meat- eating.
There is not even smoking, or taking, drinking tea. How it is possible? They were addicted to all these things from beginning of their life. Now they have given up. If you take this as good qualities, then they have already developed, besides others. Why? Because due to Krishna consciousness. Sometimes in America the authorities they are surprised. They want to consult us on that: “How you developed, given up this bad habit.”
They are spending so much money to stop this bad habit. How it is that your members used to take not only LSD, all kinds of intoxications. So if you take it as a good quality, that good quality is developing due to Krishna consciousness. Therefore this is a fact: one who has no Krishna consciousness, or God consciousness, he may go on speculating but he’ll never come to the platform of goodness. That is our test.
“US GAMING REVENUE: CURRENT-YEAR DATA”
source: http://www.americangaming.org/Industry/factsheets/statistics_detail.cfv?id=7
Gross gambling revenue (GGR) is the amount wagered minus the winnings returned to players, a true measure of the economic value of gambling. GGR is the figure used to determine what a casino, racetrack, lottery or other gaming operation earns before taxes, salaries and other expenses are paid — the equivalent of “sales” not “profit.”
The following chart shows the most recent GGR statistics available:
INDUSTRY GROSS REVENUES
Card Rooms………………………………….$1.18 billion
Commercial Casinos ………………………$34.41 billion1
Charitable Games and Bingo……………$2.22 billion
Indian Casinos………………………………$26.02 billion2
Legal Bookmaking………………………….$168.8 million
Lotteries……………………………………….$24.78 billion
Pari-mutuel Wagering……………………..$3.50 billion
GRAND TOTAL…………………………………$92.27 billion
Source: Christiansen Capital Advisors LLC
1Amount includes deepwater cruise ships, cruises-to-nowhere and noncasino devises
2Amount includes Class II and Class III casinos
01/09
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