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Online gambling is costing people in Portugal €28 million PER DAY. SIC Notícias trails the news this afternoon, saying it comes from data for the first three months of this year. Just in the month of March, says the station, more than 118,000 people “asked to be prohibited from playing” as they were running up such large debts. Gambling mushroomed during the pandemic when casinos were forced to close, moving their business online. Says SIC, the gambling industry has seen profits triple since 2019 as thousands of new players have become addicted. SIC suggests the ‘typical new gambler’ is under the age of 35…

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