Florida Gov. vetoes bill to require warnings on lottery tickets

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reddog — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 12:38:26 GMT

What took Florida so long ? Think of all the broken marriages the warning could have saved. Seriously, they have a gambling problem hotline posted in casinos and nobody pays them any mind. N.C. has had that on the back of each ticket since starting 13 years ago.

I worked at a manufacturing plant in the early 90's that made cigarettes and the Surgeon General required all packs and cartoons to have the warning label placed on them. Well, here it is over 25 years later and habits continue.

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Artist77 — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 12:01:27 GMT

Exactly right Coin Toss. The warning would be a rebutable presumption but something

very unforseen would have to occur for the warning to have no weight.

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Coin Toss — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 23:49:56 GMT

Artist nailed it.

The proposed warning label had nothing to do with looking after players, the lottery knows they'll keep playing.

It was all about covering the lottery when some heavy player (or someone greatly overstating their amount played) said, I would never have played that much money if I knew those games could be that addictive.

Losers like to have something to blame it on.

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mikeintexas — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:52:52 GMT

Or on a suppository: Not to be taken orally .

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music* — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:48:25 GMT

Governor Ron DeSantis won his election and the voters should be proud of him.

The toll-free phone number for gambling problems is the first step in getting help.

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Artist77 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:42:26 GMT

Lol. Do not place on head. This plastic bag is a suffocation device.

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lejardin — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:38:42 GMT

Lol is that like paint can warnings, Do not eat paint, may cause......

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Artist77 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:16:48 GMT

The warning is just a type of standard legal disclaimer. Such disclaimers are on everything from ladders to plastic bags. It is designed to reduce or prevent lawsuits with claims such as I did not know if I spent all of my money gambling, I could not pay my mortgage

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mikeintexas — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:03:15 GMT

That's true. I used to know a guy who would hit himself in the head with a hammer because he said it felt so good when he stopped.

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Bleudog101 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:15:39 GMT

Good news there. Reminds me of a story in my PICU talking some issue with a Grandmother who was there was her Grandson, a patient I worked with. I had to clean up my language and told her 'People are going to drink, people are going to smoke, people are going to screw, people are going to gamble'. Point is a stupid warning label would do nothing to deter folks from playing.

Comment #1

Stack47 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 03:06:59 GMT

Florida isn't a nanny state

Florida Gov. vetoes bill to require warnings on lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 02:59:13 GMT

A bill that would have required warnings on all Florida Lottery tickets will not become a law.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the bill Friday.

(See Florida lawmakers want to slap addiction warning notices on every lottery ticket, Lottery Post, May 2, 2019.)

In a memo that accompanied the veto, DeSantis explained that Florida Lottery revenue goes to public education and that an agency analysis showed the bill could lead to a minimum $79.4 million reduction in education funding.

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