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The Power of Slot Machines
According to CBS News, Americans now spend more money on slot machines than movies, baseball, and theme parks combined. In every way, these machines are thought of as being light, a light form of gambling. The irony is that they are the most potent if you want to use that word in terms of how addicting they are. It's been shown that you get problematically involved with these devices three to four times faster than you would at the racetrack or playing card games.
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