Love of casinos pushed to limit

Americans have gambling fever but they don't like casinos intheir backyards.

More than $500 billion was wagered in the U.S. in 1995.Gambling profits are more than four times bigger than the combinedrevenues from movies or professional sports. Americans made 150million visits to casinos in 1995. Between 1990 and 1993, the numberof households visiting casinos went from 46 million to 92 million.

As part of the gambling boom, the population of Las Vegas hasmore than doubled to more than 1 million in the last decade. Morethan $8 billion in hotel/casino projects are planned or are underconstruction that will increase the city's hotel rooms to more than120,000.More …