Betting on the Super Bowl? Legal experts take aim at sports gambling commercials

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40 years ago, Professor Richard Daynard and his colleagues at the Public Health Advocacy Institute took on -- and beat -- Big Tobacco. Now, they're taking on online sports gambling, an industry that's exploded since it was legalized in 2018. In a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts in December, the institute at Northeastern University alleged that DraftKings, which is headquartered in Boston, ran misleading "$1,000 Bonus" promotions. "The whole point is to get people hooked," Daynard told CNN.

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