scholarly journals Gambling marketing bans in professional sports neglect the risks posed by financial trading apps and cryptocurrencies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Warren Stirling Newall ◽  
Leon Y. Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
Financial Trading ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gambling Harms ◽  
Regulatory Actions

Professional sports have in recent years become increasingly intertwined with gambling marketing, especially in countries such as Australia, Spain, and the UK. Even Formula 1 racing, which used to be closely associated with tobacco sponsorship, announced in 2021 an agreement to have an official betting sponsor. However, as happened previously with tobacco sponsorship, some policymakers and regulators have started to take legal action with gambling marketing restrictions. In Italy, gambling advertising and sponsorship are now prohibited. In Spain, gambling sponsorship of sports teams is prohibited, whilst advertising is prohibited except between 1:00AM–5:00AM, thus effectively banning commercially viable gambling marketing through sports. The UK is currently considering a sponsorship ban in sports. Although these regulatory actions may have improved consumer protection against gambling harms, a closer examination of recent developments in the top men’s soccer leagues of these three countries reveals an emerging trend toward sponsorship from two gambling-like industries that are unaffected by these legal bans: financial trading apps and cryptocurrencies. Consumers are becoming increasingly exposed to the marketing of these gambling-like products through sports contexts, and these products could pose similar risks to gambling or even additional, unique risks.

scholarly journals Gambling marketing bans in professional sports neglect the risks posed by financial trading apps and cryptocurrencies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Warren Stirling Newall ◽  
Leon Y. Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
Financial Trading ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gambling Harms ◽  
Regulatory Actions

Professional sports have in recent years become increasingly intertwined with gambling marketing, especially in countries such as Australia, Spain, and the UK. Even Formula 1 racing, which used to be closely associated with tobacco sponsorship, announced in 2021 an agreement to have an official betting sponsor. However, as happened previously with tobacco sponsorship, some policymakers and regulators have started to take legal action with gambling marketing restrictions. In Italy, gambling advertising and sponsorship are now prohibited. In Spain, gambling sponsorship of sports teams is prohibited, whilst advertising is prohibited except between 1:00AM–5:00AM, thus effectively banning commercially viable gambling marketing through sports. The UK is currently considering a sponsorship ban in sports. Although these regulatory actions may have improved consumer protection against gambling harms, a closer examination of recent developments in the top men’s soccer leagues of these three countries reveals an emerging trend toward sponsorship from two gambling-like industries that are unaffected by these legal bans: financial trading apps and cryptocurrencies. Consumers are becoming increasingly exposed to the marketing of these gambling-like products through sports contexts, and these products could pose similar risks to gambling or even additional, unique risks.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Gambling-Related Harm Measurement: Lessons from the Last Decade

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4395
Author(s):  
Matthew Browne ◽  
Vijay Rawat ◽  
Catherine Tulloch ◽  
Cailem Murray-Boyle ◽  
Matthew Rockloff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Health Utility ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Psychometric Evidence ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Utility Metrics ◽  
Gambling Harms ◽  
Related Harm

Jurisdictions around the world have a self-declared mandate to reduce gambling-related harm. However, historically, this concept has suffered from poor conceptualisation and operationalisation. However, recent years have seen swift advances in measuring gambling harm, based on the principle of it being a quantifiable decrement to the health and wellbeing of the gambler and those connected to them. This review takes stock of the background and recent developments in harm assessment and summarises recent research that has validated and applied the Short Gambling Harms Screen and related instruments. We recommend that future work builds upon the considerable psychometric evidence accumulated for the feasibility of direct elicitation of harmful consequences. We also advocate for grounding harms measures with respect to scalar changes to public health utility metrics. Such an approach will avoid misleading pseudo-clinical categorisations, provide accurate population-level summaries of where the burden of harm is carried, and serve to integrate gambling research with the broader field of public health.

scholarly journals Problematizing Olympic Nationality

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 374-379
Author(s):  
Peter J. Spiro
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Nation States ◽  
International Solidarity

One can hope that the convening of the Tokyo Olympics will be a cause for global celebration. Tokyo could prove a focal point for international solidarity, a moment of relief and release after all of humanity faced down an insidious, invisible, and largely indiscriminate attacker. Unified as we otherwise may be, athletes will still come to the Games as representatives of nation-states. That may be an unavoidable organizing principle. Less justifiable will be the requirement that athletes be nationals of the states they play for. Under the Olympic Charter and the rules of particular sporting federations, athletes are subject to a non-state nationality regime that restricts the capacity of individuals to compete for countries for whose delegations they would otherwise qualify. This regime looks to maintain the putative integrity of Olympic competition by maintaining the unity of sporting and sociological national identity. But that legacy of the twentieth century no longer works in the twenty first. Nationality and associated criteria for participant eligibility undermine the autonomy of athletes and the quality of participation. The rules can no longer guarantee any affective tie between athlete and nation, instead arbitrarily enabling some, but not all, to compete on the basis of citizenship decoupled from identity. We don't require that athletes playing for our professional sports teams hale from the cities they represent. There's no reason why we need to require more of our Olympic athletes.

Recent Developments and Future Changes to Internet Privacy Rules in the EU, the UK and the U.S.

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bender ◽  
Joseph Jones ◽  
Mark Young ◽  
Hendrike Wulfert-Markert
Keyword(s):  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Eu

Municipal subsidiary policy toward professional sports teams

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 431-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yair Galily ◽  
Fany Yuval ◽  
Michael Bar‐Eli
Keyword(s):  
Professional Sports ◽  
Sports Teams

Reducing the Health Risks Associated with Travel

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Package Holiday ◽  
The Uk

All travel has associated health risks that need to be recognized not only by travellers, but also by tour operators and governments. In this context, the author considers some of the infections that have been contracted by package holiday tourists from the UK. With 15 million package holidays sold in the UK each year and increasing consumer concern about health risks, health is now a major factor in customer satisfaction. Media exposure and possible legal action when expectations are not met mean that the need to reduce the health risks associated with travel is crucial for the tourism industry as well as for travellers themselves. This paper sets out the main hazards and risks and examines what actions can and should be taken by tour operators, destination countries, and tourists. The author stresses the importance of ensuring a proper health infrastructure in the development of tourist areas; the need for operators to stipulate minimum hotel standards, backed up by regular auditing; the responsibility of tourists to ensure that they do not expose themselves to unnecessary risks; and the significance of surveillance systems in the control of travel-related diseases.

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