Is gambling bad for your health physically?

It screws you up financially.

I don't think it will effect you directly, but it may effect you indirectly by increasing stress and anxiety which can lead to physical health problems. That will probably only effect people who have a gambling addiction though.

If it's an addiction it can screw your mental health, which can in turn affect your physical health.

Ive seen many a ghostly spirits at the casino , sunken eye's and empty hearts looking for the rush of a win or rather a temporary REFUND.. just to give it all back sooner or later. The casinos favorite saying is "winners never quit and quitters never win"

I think it can be damaging in an indirect way by causing all sorts of other life problems and leading you to often less healthy environments and situations. it can rewire people to think about money differently , and can cause huge disturbances in families. Peoples life's do fall apart from gambling all the time.

NOW, buying a lottery ticket once in awhile when you can afford the pleasure of buying a ticket of hope? Not so sure if very mild gaming like this would have any negative effect on someone. I suppose maybe in a very subconsciously small way being told your a loser often enough COULD have an effect on some,
example : maybe someone buys a few tickets a week, like most there may be times when they fantasies about what all that money could do for them and there family all the concerns they could make vanish and the power they would have. Having those fiancees more often may lead some to feel less satisfied with where they are at now, to envy the potential power of having a lot of money,perhaps causing ever so slightly more dissatisfaction and stress because the "dream" of being rich has gone further then friendly. OR perhaps when things turn sour in there life , checking that ticket to see "loser" as they've subconsciously seen so many times before could be just one more drop in the pond to convince themselves that they are a loser, and perhaps in some the increased desire to care about money and equate it to happiness through these fantasies, could i suppose in some people create a breaking point or create a very small effect on how they perceive happiness,money , and there satisfaction with the spot they take in life. Increasing the "something for nothing" mantra.

OBVIOUSLY for many a small amount of gambling is probably not going to have much if any of a health effect. But I do believe how we think matters often more then we could ever realize and small changes can change things in a huge way ..much like a butterfly effect, so even in some of those cases with very limited non-problem gamblers, thoughts that surround the nature of gambling could echo out, maybe even positively though, but id argue more likely negative due to the nature of gambling and the greed it flourishes in.

Its way too long of a story to tell , But i had an unbelievable runaround with gambling, so cinematically improbable , and for me i definitely had whole slew of negative effects for years because f it.

but you know like many things its all in how use it , occasionally drinking =not too big of a deal , drinking regularly more of a deal , drinking all the time - a big problem. The most important thing you can do is be honest with yourself and to resist going beyond what you know is best for you.

Just drink smoke cigarettes and do drugs. You won't have money left for gambling.

It depends on the form the gambling takes: if you're sitting for hours in front of a poker machine or at a card or roulette table and forgetting to eat or drink water or go to the toilet, then obviously that wouldn't be healthy.

A gambling addiction can be a really bad thing.

I suppose if it consumes you and causes stress it will hurt your body.

You're retarded