Chan Fai
World Cup: Does it promote social ills such as gambling addiction?

It happens once every four years. The excitement of the people yelling whenever a nice approach or a goal is scored by their supporting team. Also because of the world cup fever, there has been increasing people who bet who football.
Betting on football may cause gambling addiction. Non gamblers may start to bet on football and get addicted to it. If they are addicted to it, their family members and people around them will get affected the most easily. The worst scenario would be they borrowing money from illegal source andnot able to pay up after losing all.
World cup bring football fans around the world together but they also promote betting on football, gambling. However, if one were to be persistent, they will not have gambling addiction during the world cup season. Betting on a few matches is alright, but not to the extent of betting heavily on most matches until they lost everything.
In my opinion, World cup does not promote social ills such as gambling addiction. Instead, it promote the spirit of football which everybody come together to support and cheer for their favourite team. If they are persistent enough, it is impossible for world cup easily to affect them having a gambling addiction.