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31. Gambling With Your Life

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What Happens When You Expose People to Las Vegas?

If all of the US were like Las Vegas, we would then be comparable to what countries in terms of suicide rate. But we wouldn't be as high as Hungary. We wouldn't be anywhere near as high as Russia. And that's true both for residents, people who live and die in Las Vegas and visitors that is people who live elsewhere but died in Las Vegas.

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