And it's about time!
Have you, like millions and millions of other Americans, wasted your hard-earned paychecks buying Powerball or state lottery tickets in the forlorn hope if bv becoming a multi-gazillionaire, just like their ads promised you would? Are you a gambling addict, seduced by the blatant lies and otherwise deceptive advertising of the lottery industry?

Fear not! You may yet strike it rich! The Hartford Courant newspaper reports -

FARMINGTON -- One of the first state attorneys general to sue the tobacco industry told a problem gambling conference Thursday that the gaming business will be the next target for lawyers seeking compensation for addicts.

As gambling continues to expand in Connecticut and across the country, "somebody is going to sue somebody," former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger told participants at the New England Conference on Problem Gambling.

Harshbarger, now president of the citizens' lobby group Common Cause, told a mixed gathering of industry executives, gambling critics and researchers that "there is a dramatic public health cost, there is a dramatic social cost."

Lottery advertisers are liars, pure and simple. I do not play the lottery, I have never played the lottery, and I never will play the lottery. And lottery players need to wake up and do some math.

Lord know I would not like to encourage lawyers to do what lawyers do, but someone needs to hold the gambling industry to account. Governments aren't doing it because state legislators in 37 of 50 states are bought a paid for by the gambling lobbies.

So go lawyers, go!