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Similarly, we cannot interpret whether 330
sudden cardiac deaths
of elderly white men at or around the casinos
within a five year
period constitutes a special public health
problem since heart
disease has been the leading cause of death in
the United States
for more than fifty years [2]. KPMG Consulting
was engaged by the Victorian Casino and Gaming
Authority to undertake
a social and economic impact study of gaming in
specified regions of Victoria. The
municipalities investigated were the Cities of
Greater Dandenong, Greater Geelong,
Maribyrnong, Moreland, the Rural City of Mildura
and the Shire of Wellington in the
eastern part of the State.
Of the six local government regions covered by
this study, two — Maribyrnong and
Dandenong — have significantly higher numbers of
gaming machines per adult than the
Victorian average, with another two — Wellington
and Geelong — being above the State
average. This pattern is also largely reflected
in gaming expenditure per adult —expenditure
per person is particularly high in Maribyrnong
and Dandenong.
Our study has found:
widespread disapproval of gambling in the six
study regions (see section 5.2.1);
- consistent with the findings of previous
state-wide and local studies;
disapproval of gambling is fairly uniform across
the six regions (see section 5.2.1):
- people in areas of high gaming machine density
and high expenditure on gaming
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