Applying effort to stop poor people from playing lottery... If the same effort was placed upon preventing people from getting poor, I'd applaud. Most likely those people gotten into habit of buying lottery prior to becoming poor. And as I said before, general lottery playing population becomes poorer every year. They as a group loose more, about 10% of their income every year, it is a lot more than inflation, 3%. So 10% add 3%= whooping 13% per year, impoverishment happens very fast over the years! WElcome to the world of homeless. In this light preventing poor people from playing lottery makes sense, although the measure is a bit too little, too late. The prevention should start earlier, when they are not poor yet. Thus, it has to be that only middle class and reach play lottery, or states have to abandon lottery and gambling completely! Again, as I said before, when the top sees how to rip the enormous buck, they will not stop at anything, including destroying their own country's population. So, folks, don't worry, they will not abandon lottery. Although, if they were smarter, they'd rely on creation of International lotteries, at least sparing a bit their own folk.
Globally, lottery and gambling is a bitch of the present time, it is silent war against simple people. No matter how well people do predictions, how much they divide the win among the winners, they have every year diminishing finances. Few that won big do not make weather, because their win came from everyone else's holly pocket. It is even shameful for the conscientious person to win big and keep it to themselves. I believe they should greatly invest into helping others.