VLT Article [Online News]

The newspaper article "No Winners" (2005, September 28) appears in The Gateway... which is the student newspaper at the University of Alberta. Dr. Garry Smith is interviewed and he provides a variety of interesting information about VLTs (Video Lottery Terminals). For example... “An average machine gives the owners of the bar about $25 000 per machine per year. And if they have ten machines, that’s $250 000. And this comes at little cost to the bar owners, since they don’t have to purchase or service the machines,” said Smith. “It’s like a windfall dropping from the sky. And by doing so, they’re created constituencies of people out there who want to keep them.”