The committee also identified a need for more research to find out whether under-18s are harmed by gambling, especially by devices such as fruit machines, although the committee believes under-18s should be allowed to play on the machines in supervised family entertainment centres.
Tom Kavanagh, secretary of casino regulator The Gaming Board for Great Britain, said: "We support a ban on fruit machines in unsupervised environments such as taxi ranks and chip shops because, just like drinking, evidence shows that long-term gamblers develop their problems from a young age." He continued: "It often depends on how gambling is introduced to the young person involved; it is very difficult to regulate the illegal siting of fruit machines."
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