There’s only one winner here. Photo: Getty
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How long until gambling ads go the way of big tobacco?

Greig JohnstonWestern Suburbs Weekly

WHEN I was about five or six, I had to have a few days off school.

I can’t recall if it was the flu or chickenpox, but I do remember watching a pirated VHS copy of Superman II so often the tracking started to play up.

And I vividly remember the scene where Christopher Reeve and Terence Stamp battered hell out of each other in front of a beautiful, shiny red and white Marlboro-branded truck.

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