Gaming advertising could be banned by law. The Parliament’s commission on environment and regional development approved a bill to amend the legislation in this regard, IPN reports.
Bill author Dumitru Alaiba, MP of the Party of Action and Sodality, said the games of chance are described by specialists as a mental illness, dependence that destroys families as the persons who depend on such games take the last money from home to casinos.
“The gaming advertising campaigns are overaggressive and are extremely generously paid so that these games become attractive to people. Regrettably, in a poor and corrupt country like hour, many people, including minors, become vulnerable, fall prey to the temptation to become rich swiftly. But this does not happen and dependence on games of chance appears and this destroys thousands of families,” stated Dumitru Alaiba.
The PAS MP also said that the banning of games of chance in other countries showed that these games moved to the underground economy and started to finance organized crime. “What we can do is to ban by law any advertising on games of chance so as to limit their attractiveness by the model of the ban on cigarette advertising,” he noted.
The bill was also endorsed by the Parliament’s commission on social protection, health and family, but was given a negative appraisal by the National Anticorruption Center.
