Opportunities for Video Lottery Terminal Gambling in Montréal
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 96 (1), 55-59
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03404019
Abstract
In the province of Québec, video lottery terminal (VLT) gambling has proliferated under government control since 1993. The aims of this study were to describe the spatial distribution of video lottery terminals (VLTs) in the municipalities of Montréal and Laval and to identify neighbourhood socio-economic conditions associated with their distribution.Keywords
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