'Gaming causes more harm than smoking'

Bull crap, it's the modern parenting that's at fault.

Bets are most of those violent crimes are committed by people who have spent more time sharpening their knives than playing video games.

Also Paul Hunt, do you want more babies? Because Lenko will have them for you!

More fuel for the fire, also originating from Australia:

Originally Posted by http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=236949

A report by Australian researchers has concluded that eight per cent of people who play computer games may be suffering symptoms of addiction.

Nearly one in 10 gamers addicted: research

this just in. 99/100 smokers are addicted, and that's still legal.

Originally Posted by rec

More fuel for the fire, also originating from Australia:



Nearly one in 10 gamers addicted: research

11.5 million subscribers is eight percent of gamers?

Its all crap... John Burmby is thinking he will be voted out this election and that has changed the "Alcohol is fueling violence" to "We need to do something about the knife attacked". Vic police have had enough of him and are putting out contradictory statements about the issues and he's wanting to be seen as labour has done something towards the alcohol issue.

and "the link between violent video games and youth crime is greater than the connection between smoking and lung cancer" I find is just insulting. Youth crime is a clear multifacet issue, I'd put number 1 down to bad parenting and number 2 theres just more wankers in certain areas of the city. ie King street Melbourne, where throughout its history has always been a danger zone at night... theres a stabbing neally every week and a death neally every year on Kings street, computer games didnt change this, and its not youths, its 21+ year olds.......

Just gonna throw it out there, it's got a MW2 has a MA15+ rating. So no child really could technically play it so it cant rewire there brain.

Go back home you Nancy Socialist fuck!

Complete rubbish

It just keeps coming:

ISU study proves conclusively that violent video game play makes more aggressive kids

ISU study proves conclusively that violent video game play makes more aggressive kids | www.news.iastate.edu

Sigh the doesnt the goverment have better things to do with its time. It gets taxes and money from people who smoke but no money from gamers sooo they are to blame.. tsk tsk.

Originally Posted by The Happy Devil

Sigh the doesnt the goverment have better things to do with its time. It gets taxes and money from people who smoke but no money from gamers sooo they are to blame.. tsk tsk.

looking at my paycheck i would beg to differ that the government doesn't get any money from me In all seriousness though, I agree that a lot of the issues we have with society now are due to bad parenting.

all i have to say is lol.


lol.

Alcohol a 'recurring theme' in youth violence - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[b]Alcohol a 'recurring theme' in youth violence[b/]

The chair of a long-running Federal Government inquiry into youth violence says she is starting to see a recurring connection between alcohol and aggression.

The Member for Canberra, Annette Ellis, has been guiding the inquiry since last June.

She says the link between alcohol and violence in young people has been made in many of the submissions.

"It is a recurring theme, but I don't want to mislead anybody by giving the impression that that's all that's being talked about," Ms Ellis said.

"Family breakdown, domestic violence, sometimes mental health, a whole range of other reasons and issues come into play if we try to discuss where violence comes from in our younger community."

Ms Ellis says she expects the inquiry's full report will be tabled in June.

good to see the number of times computer game where mentions in that.

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