Las Vegas Stats
In the year 2005, about 38.6 million people visited Las Vegas, spending about $33 billion during that year. Las Vegas is furnished with more than 133,000 hotel rooms with 90 percent occupancy throughout the year. These mammoth figures are evident to the fact that the majority of the people of United States of America are addicted to gambling and these numbers are increasing to further extent.
According to the survey conducted by www.family.org, wealth spent by the Americans in gambling is far more than their expenses on amusement parks, video games, sports and movies all together. Except for Utah and Hawaii all other states in the United States of America have legalized gambling.
Apart from United States of America few other countries are also involved in gambling business. Likewise America, British population is also expending approximately the same amount on gambling activities. The gambling business flourished in Britain at a gigantic rate of 566 percent. United Kingdom is the base for world’s largest online gambling companies. Australians are the ones who are heavily addicted to gambling. 8 of every 10 adults in Australia gamble leastwise once a week.
Although gambling brings loads of revenue to the tourism and hospitality industry but impacts the society severely. A seriously obsessed gambler tends to disregard his job and other interests to an extent that it hinders and breaks apart his family. Gambling magnifies the crime rate. Gamblers go bankrupt and in order to feed their undying addiction to gambling and to pay debts, they start committing crimes in search of easy and quick money. Gambling is considered as a big crime in many religious contexts. Gambling is the aftermath of extreme greed, which is nothing less than a deadly sin.
People has to understand that gambler always losses. Even if he wins millions in the gambling activities, but a gambler tends to loose his family, morals and peace of mind. If he looses, he gambles to compensate his losses and if he wins, he still gambles to win more. This addiction spreads so viciously leaving him alone and unsatisfied with this life.
One must have an addiction to spread peace and serenity. This would lead him fully gratified with his life. Places like Las Vegas are not the actual Cities of Lights. City Of Lights is termed to the place where love and joy flourishes. It has to understand that this life is not to fulfill their ugly desire of money, but it is meant to spread the God’s message.
