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You and Yours: Gambling advertising, Illegal cigarettes, Switching energy company

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20/08/2018

Gambling advertising, Illegal cigarettes, Switching energy company

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gambling advertising, Illegal cigarettes, Switching energy company

Gambling advertising, Crackdown on illegal cigarettes, Switching energy company.

The betting companies accused of breaking new rules on advertising gambling, the crackdown on illegal tobacco sales, and the service that automatically switches energy customers.

Researchers at Warwick University are urging the Advertising Standards Authority to ban live-odds TV betting adverts during football matches.

In a new report about gambling advertising during the World Cup, they claim that 63 "live-odds" TV adverts may have breached the regulator's new guidance.

The team of four researchers looked at adverts from five of the biggest betting companies across 32 matches.

We hear from the lead author of the research and ask the companies criticised in the report for their response. 

The Advertising Standards Authority says its investigating 115 complaints about TV gambling adverts during the World Cup. 

The regulator is also assessing several adverts to establish if any further action needs to be taken.

Our reporter, Jon Douglas, looks at how a crackdown on illegal tobacco sales is working in the North East of England.

It's part of a new campaign called "Keep It Out" and has got people thinking about how the illegal tobacco trade affects children and has led to hundreds of tip-offs, a series of raids and arrests. 

We ask whether automatic switching services could encourage more people to swap energy supplier.

We've been told for years switching your energy supplier can save you a lot of money. But most of us still don't bother.

Those of us who do switch are usually put on one-off deals that expire after a year which means customers are then put on to expensive standard variable tariffs unless they negotiate a new deal or switch again. 

We speak to Henry de Zoete, co-founder of Look After My Bills, a website that finds the best deal and automatically switches people when a contract comes to an end.

Presenter: Melanie Abbott
Producer: Tara Holmes.

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