Gambling enjoys nothing like the opprobrium routinely heaped upon the tobacco industry. Yet gambling kills people, maybe 650 in Britain each year by means of suicide. The victims are often young men, ensnared by online betting made easy and ubiquitous by the smartphone. Financial ruin is so much easier to achieve when one is not forced to visit a casino or racecourse and can sit back in the comfort of one’s own home bleeding out the last contents of a bank account. Britons are big ­online gamblers, by some estimates second in ­volume to the Americans. Gambling is worth some £15 billion a year in the United Kingdom and remote betting is exceeded only by lotteries as an earner, beating casinos, betting shops and physical