The costs of addicted gamblers: should the states initiate mega-lawsuits similar to the tobacco cases?

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 17-63

  Kindt, John Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84993078790     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.997     Document Type: Article

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