The Internet gambling industry will be delighted AGA has called for an objective study because this will show (Internet gambling) can be regulated.

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,

Two to three years ago there were early adopters gambling on the Internet, ... Today it's the mass market. The public wants to know that they're putting their money into something trustworthy.

It becomes increasingly more challenging for us in recent years to compete with illegal Internet gambling. Also, we're in favor of bringing video lottery terminals to Texas.

Internet gambling is an illegal and destructive activity. People have bought into the lie that because it is done in the privacy of their own home, it is acceptable. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[Considering that a Pew Internet study in July found that three-quarters of online teens use IM, the second-most-common tool among this group for communicating with friends after the good old landline, a future of taking IM breaks at work instead of coffee breaks isn't far-fetched, says Mary Madden, co-author of the more recent report. It's akin to the idea that employees increasingly use their downtime to shop or check the news.] We're the IM generation, ... They're going to put our screen names on our tombstones.