Teaching children and young people about public health issues like gambling harms is challenging and involves engaging with complex concepts including the role of powerful vested interests🧵 It is important that education-based policies that seek to protect children and young people are open to scrutiny and that we consider carefully how they may favour corporate interests.

What public awareness campaigns are in place to inform people about the potential harms of gambling & how to use gambling products safely? 🤔 @spidermaani @martinmckee @Doc_Samantha @CecileKnai @petticrewmark & I researched the origins of one of the largest industry-funded UK-based ‘responsible gambling’ campaigns "When the FUN stops, STOP", launched by the Senet Group, a group formed & funded by the gambling industry