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Play warns students of dark side of gambling

"The lesson is in the form of a dramatic play touring schools around the region, a performance paid for by the lottery corporation.

"The play was presented on Friday at Charlottetown's Colonel Gray High School.

"'I guess our message to Atlantic Canadians is that we want you to play our games of chance if you are of age of majority,' Robert Bourgeois of Atlantic Lotto said.

"'We want you to play the lottery, but do so in a healthy way.'

"The play tells the story of a young university student who becomes addicted to online gambling. Other characters play poker and dabble with online gambling as well, but unlike their troubled friend, they know when to quit..."

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