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ArticleIrish journal of medical science2026

Combatting gambling in Ireland: adopting demand and supply strategies from the fight against big tobacco and alcohol.

Frank Houghton, Daisy Houghton, Mia Daly, Anne Campbell

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Article in Irish journal of medical science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Frank HoughtonDepartment of Applied Social Sciences, Technological University of the Shannon, Limerick, Ireland. Frank.Houghton@TUS.ie.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7599-5255
Daisy HoughtonFaculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6497-0829
Mia DalySchool of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-1544-4901
Anne CampbellSchool of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5146-3038

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper outlines the threat posed by gambling in Ireland and proposes a range of policy responses. Drawing on established tobacco and alcohol control measures, it argues for restrictions on advertising and point-of-sale (PoS) marketing, mandatory warnings, plain packaging, improved enforcement, raising the minimum gambling age to 21, increasing minimum spend requirements, introducing temporal limits on gambling, increasing gambling taxes, and introducing a retailer licence fee for National Lottery sales.

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GamblingGambling controlMarketingRegulation

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PMID42905227

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