Most Americans Unaware That Online Gambling Is Illegal
A recent Ipsos Reid survey found that, when compared to two years ago, fewer people in both countries are aware that Internet gambling is illegal and more would be willing to see it permitted as long as it were regulated. Internet gambling is for the most part, illegal in both the United States and Canada, but public thinking, awareness, and interest in the activity do not reflect that.
The study revealed that over the past two years, Americans and Canadians have become less aware of the illegal status of Internet gambling. In the U.S. just over a third of respondents to the survey were aware that Internet gambling was illegal. In Canada, awareness of the illegal nature of Internet gambling is even worse and getting worse still: less than a quarter of Canadian respondents were aware that Internet gambling is illegal in their country.
