In conclusion, gambling should be abolished because it leads to addiction, which can cause mental and financial damage. Crimes are often associated with gambling as it is committed by problem gamblers in order to pay off debts, and that they typically reached a severe stage after a few years of playing in casino. In addition to what was mentioned above, casinos are also destroying lives, families and homes. Some people seen it as a form of recreation but it can easily draw you away from the ones you love because you might think to yourself that its just a couple of times a week you go to clear you head and try your luck while your family and home is undone. There are people who think that playing gamble is a way to make money for family; but in fact, it is not because "no wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner" (Lord Dewar 222). Gambling is a menace to society, deadly to spiritual life, and destructive of good government. Gambling destroys many people who get entangled in its web before they realize it, just like drug addiction does. We may not be able to eradicate all gambling from our land, because "gambling itself will only end when human nature has changed completely and there are no more bets to win" (Harold Smith 22), but we should be concerned about its effects, and stand up against its expansion. Gambling should be banned, or at least very tightly controlled.