Adolescent internet gambling: preliminary results of a national survey

via non face-to-face methods is relatively new. Instant Win games on the Internet were launched in February 2003, Lotto and Daily Play online in December 2003, and play-by-text has been available since October 2004. To date, there has been no direct empirical research examining adolescent Internet gambling or any other remote form of gambling such as mobile phone gambling. However, many adolescents are technologically proficient and use the Internet and mobile phones regularly. Therefore, adolescent use of remote gambling is an area worthy of examination over the coming years. The data reported here are taken from the latest national adolescent gambling study carried out by the authors and MORI1.