Betting on the Super Bowl? Legal experts take aim at sports gambling commercials

Betting on the Super Bowl? Legal experts take aim at sports gambling commercials

40 years ago, Professor Richard Daynard and his colleagues at the Public Health Advocacy Institute took on — and beat — Big Tobacco. Now, they’re taking on online sports gambling, an industry that’s exploded since it was legalized in 2018. In a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts in December, the institute at Northeastern University alleged that DraftKings, which is headquartered in Boston, ran misleading "$1,000 Bonus" promotions. "The whole point is to get people hooked," Daynard told CNN.

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