What Sports Gambling Is Learning From Big Tobacco
By Danny Funt••The New Republic
Minnesota State Senator John Marty was furious with the nonprofit National Council on Problem Gambling, so much so that he couldn’t wait until morning to fire off an angry email. “I am deeply disappointed to see this!” he wrote to an NCPG staffer one night in…
Recruiting former critics like Whyte is a powerful tool for sustaining the betting businesss meteoric growth. The tobacco industry was notorious for co-opting trusted health experts to vouch for the…