BMJ  2004;329:1405 (11 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7479.1405-b

Letter

Betting your life on it

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EDITOR—Wilson raises issues that I had raised in an earlier version of my editorial. Owing to space constraints, my article was cut at the proof stage, removing my referral to an earlier BMJ editorial on the topic of gambling and health.1

McKee and Sassi argued that gambling was a health issue because it widened the inequalities of income and that an association existed between inequality of income in industrialised countries and lower life expectancy.1 This complements the issues raised by Wilson and shows that social and public health policy on gambling needs to be addressed at microlevels and macrolevels in society.

Mark D Griffiths, professor of gambling studies

Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU mark.griffiths@ntu.ac.uk

Competing interests: None declared.

  1. McKee M, Sassi F. Gambling with the nation's health. BMJ 1995;311: 521-2.[Free Full Text]

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